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Global solidarity with cabin crew at UK airline
18 March 2010
Aviation unions around the world have responded positively to a recent call for solidarity with UK cabin crew workers, who announced seven days of strike action last week.
The unions are backing the dispute between workers employed at British Airways (BA) and represented by the UK union Unite. Those supporting the workers include: the US-based Teamsters union, with whom Unite is holding meetings; the Transport Workers’ Union of Australia and German union, Verdi. Other unions in Argentina, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, India and Spain also expressed solidarity with the workers.
The dispute revolves around BA managers’ attempt to impose new working conditions on staff. Last week, the union announced seven days of strike action beginning next week.
ITF civil aviation section secretary Gabriel Mocho commented: “The meetings between Unite and the Teamsters, and the decision to help by many other unions show just how strongly airline workers around the world feel about this dispute. We are all backing the cabin crew and their desire for a speedy solution.”
“Ask anyone in the 264 aviation trade unions that are members of the ITF what they think of the dispute and they’ll tell you that they want to avoid industrial action and disruption to passengers. But in this case they don’t believe BA management has shown a real willingness to sort out the problems. The result has been a groundswell of support for the cabin crew and a search for ways to show it.”
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