3500 staff to help BA break strike
21.02.10
Up to 3,500 BA staff - including 1000 pilots - have volunteered to work as cabin crew to help break a widely expected strike by the airline's air stewards, the Daily Mail reports. They would work with existing cabin crew who do not strike, plus some former cabin crew who will return to the airline on a temporary basis having left last year.
With so many staff willing to help, it is likely that the airline will be able to run a limited service if its 12,000 cabin crew back a union call to walk out. A 'union source' told the newspaper: 'BA are not going to be able to run a normal operation, but with so many volunteers they would run more than just a skeleton service.'
The result of the strike ballot will be formally announced tomorrow, with both the Unite union and BA management expecting a vote in favour of industrial action. Cabin crew are striking over jobs, pay and working conditions.
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