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Strike action by cabin crew has now entered the final bloc of five days. Every strike day produces big crowds at Bedfont football ground. Re-ballot cabin crew to invite all trade union reps to a meeting to of shortening this dispute.
Strike action by cabin crew has now entered the final bloc of five days. Every strike day produces big crowds at Bedfont football ground. Re-ballot cabin crew to invite all trade union reps to a meeting to of shortening this dispute.
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Strike action by cabin crew has now entered the final bloc of five days. Every strike day produces big crowds at Bedfont football ground. Re-ballot cabin crew to invite all trade union reps to a meeting to of shortening this dispute.
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• Solid strikes continue into • third week I ndustrial action by cabin crew has battle with management. The re-ballot cabin crew to invite all trade union reps now entered the final bloc of five will give cabin crew time to consider ways across the company to a meeting to days. Walsh may have imagined of shortening this dispute. It is of critical discuss defending terms and conditions back in November there would be a importance to extend this dispute beyond and combating intimidation of union quick sprint to victory for management. cabin crew to other parts of the company. activists. In this way workers at BA can In reality this dispute has turned into a Air Strike is aware that there has not begin to overcome the divisions between marathon. Every strike day produces big always been agreement among trade different sections and present a united crowds at Bedfont football ground and unionists over the best way to defend front in the face of BA management. cabin crew doing picket line duty for the members interests. Ironically Walsh’s There is no contingency plan of Willie first time. So while management must behaviour has now provided a unifying Walsh’s that can deal with that. deal with this problem of its own making issues for workers day after day the superior numbers of across the company cabin crew and the efficient rota system to rally around. Occupation A Mistake for the pickets mean cabin crew are well The new conditions The defeat of Willie Walsh and the brutish BA management placed to out last management. Walsh has is the most important aspect to this dispute. It is therefore Despite the much hyped contingency introduced into any unfortunate that the reported decision of the Socialist plans of BA it is clear Walsh has new deal, such as Workers Party (SWP) members at the end of the Right to underestimated the determination of changes to the 1948 Work Conference to invade talks between British Airways cabin crew to defend their union. Another Redeployment management and Unite has partially obscured this issue. piece of management hype that has Agreement and This occupation was completely mistaken. taken a beating during the course of this renegotiating trade dispute is the idea that Walsh is a skilled union facility time It is the view of the Socialist Party that the actions of the negotiator. are changes that SWP were not in the best interests of striking cabin crew will effect every workers. Such tactics will prove to be counter-productive. In fact during the course of this It is the mass action of cabin crew through their union dispute rather than engage in serious worker and trade unionist at the that is the key to defeating Walsh, not the actions of a self negotiations Walsh has only ever played appointed minority. Despite this we are totally opposed to three cards; intimidate the workforce into company. A call for no changes to any victimisation of those who took part in this mistaken scabbing on cabin crew, blame BASSA protest. for a failure to reach an agreement and the Redeployment run to the courts to over turn democratic Agreement could be The priority for all workers in the trade union movement strike ballots. the basis for other now is to support the cabin crew workers against Walsh sections of the BA and BA management. Hopefully an agreement that protects workforce to move the interests of cabin crew can be to ‘failure to agree’ reached by the end of the current round and begin balloting of strikes. However given the kamikaze for strike action. determination of Willie Walsh to destroy the union this seems unlikely. Now that The period of the 12 week window of strike action the new ballot allowed under the anti trade union laws could be used is closing, Unite are correct to re-ballot by cabin crew to for strike action. From discussions on the campaign amongst picket lines Air Strike is confident another other sections thumping majority in favour of strike of the workforce action will be returned. for extension of action across the Cabin crew have shown time and again company. 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