Union bosses slam BA ‘macho management’
16.12.09
The heads of Unite, the cabin crew union embroiled in a dispute with British Airways, has hit out at the airline’s ‘macho management’. Unite joint general secretaries Tony Woodley and Derek Simpson said BA staff are being ‘held hostage by a macho management which prefers imposition and confrontation, or even litigation, to negotiation’.
The claims come despite BA chief executive Willie Walsh saying he is prepared to meet the union at any time to resolve the dispute. The airline is also seeking a legal injunction in an attempt to prevent the strike.
The union bosses said: ‘Last Friday we offered to suspend any industrial action and declare a ‘pause for peace’ if the company would agree to suspend its imposition of new terms and conditions on cabin crew. Willie Walsh turned this offer down flat. Confrontation, not negotiation, is his approach, even though an industrial dispute will cost the company vastly more money than his projected savings from attacking cabin crew conditions.’
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