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4
November 2009
British airways staff
moved further towards strike action this week after a mass
meeting of Unite members protested against the company's plans
to impose new employment contracts on top of job cuts and
pay freezes.
Unite is working with
John Hendy QC to seek a High Court injunction against BA imposing
new contracts which the union argue are "intimidatory"
and will result in lower pay for staff.
Len McCluskey, assistant
general secretary of Unite said BA "needs to think again
and abandon plans to force through unfair, unworkable contractual
changes."
Unite will announce the
results of their strike ballot on the 14 December; the new
contracts are due to come into force on the 16 November.
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