BA legal bid to block strike
15.12.09
British Airways is beginning legal action against the Unite union in an attempt to prevent a planned 12-day Christmas strike by cabin crew that threatens to ruin the Christmas and New Year travel plans of up to one million passengers. It has written to the union, claiming that irregularities in the way the strike ballot was conducted has made the industrial action illegal.
Willie Walsh, the BA chief executive, said: ‘We are absolutely determined to do whatever we can to protect our customers from this appalling, unjustified decision from Unite. We do not want to see a million Christmases ruined.'
‘Unite was told about the problems with its ballot on Friday. Yet it cynically went ahead with an extreme, highly publicised threat to our customers and our business in the knowledge that it might not be able to carry it out.’
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