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Nordic unions prepare action in support of BA strikers

31/03/10

Trade unions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden are giving legal notice that they will take action in support of British Airways cabin crew. The five unions – Sweden’s SEKO and Swedish Transport Workers’ Union, Denmark’s 3F and Norway’s Parat and Norwegian Transport Workers’ Union – have acted in response to a call for lawful solidarity action made by the ITF (International Transport Workers’ Federation).

In compliance with its country’s laws the Danish union lodged statutory notice of planned legal sympathy action with its national employers’ associations last night, while their Swedish and Norwegian colleagues will do so in one week’s time, in line with the timetables set by their legislation. They anticipate that action will commence on or around 14th April. They have not for now specified what form their actions will take.

ITF General Secretary David Cockroft said: “BA is a world organisation and conflict within it has world repercussions. Our member unions have watched the failure of negotiations between management and union and they have been unanimous in recognising the risk of a downward spiral across the aviation sector and the potential for damage to the company, its image, passengers and workers that failure represents. Today’s vote for action in the Nordic countries is the latest attempt to reinforce the need for a speedy, negotiated conclusion.”

He continued: “We and our members intend to resist what has come to look very much like an attempt to break the union, and resist the drop in standards across the industry – probably starting in Spain after any BA/Iberia tie-up – that it would usher in if allowed to happen.”

Per Östvold, President of the Nordic Transport Workers’ Federation, said: “These notifications signal our intention to go out and show our support for our colleagues in British Airways. In Norway, Sweden and Denmark we are now planning lawful expressions of solidarity with a workforce that we believe has been starved of consultation, stripped of travel benefits and excluded from consultation about its own future.”

The five unions reserve comment for the present about what form their planned action will take.

Solidarity with BA cabin crew will also be on the agenda at the Helsinki meeting of the Executive Committee of the Nordic Transport Workers' Federation (NTF) on 5 April. The NTF is an association of 50 transport workers trade unions from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

The ITF is a global union federation with 751 member trade unions, representing 4,669,720 members in 154 countries. Two hundred and sixty four of those unions represent workers in the aviation sector, including cabin crew, pilots, ground staff, baggage handlers and air traffic controllers. More details of its work in solidarity with the BA cabin crew can be found at http://www.itfglobal.org/campaigns/SupportBAcrew.cfm

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For more details please contact:

ITF, Sam Dawson on tel: 020 7940 9260. Email: dawson_sam@itf.org.uk
Nordic Transport Workers’ Federation, Per Östvold on tel: +47 916 94 130. Email: per.oestvold@transportarbeider.no
Norsk Transportarbeiderforbund (Norwegian Transport Workers’ Union), Roger Hansen on tel: +4791694640, Tlf: +47 40646464 . Email: roger.hansen@transportarbeider.no
Parat, Vegard Einar on tel: +47 48 12 93 92. Email: vegard.einan@parat.com
SEKO, Tomas Abrahamsson on tel: +46705926891. Email: tomas.abrahamsson@seko.se
Svenska Transportarbetareförbundet, (Swedish Transport Workers’ Union), Lars Lindgren on tel: +46705127531. Email: lars.lindgren.fk@transport.se
3F, Flemming Smidt on tel: +45 212 81 080. Email: flemming.smidt@3f.dk

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For more information contact ITF press officer, Sam Dawson.
Direct line: + 44 (0)20 7940 9260.
Email: dawson_sam@itf.org.uk

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