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Article: BA cabin crew vote for series of strikes
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 1, 1997
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Cabin crew at British Airways last night voted in favour of a
series of three-day strikes in their five-month-old dispute over
pay and conditions.
The recommendation for a series of 72-hour strikes, made at a
meeting near Heathrow airport, will be put to Bill Morris, general
secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union, for approval
today. If Mr Morris approves the action he will set the date for
the first strike, said a union spokesman.
Cabin crew voted with a 70 per cent majority in favour of
strikes, and earlier in the day the airline's ground staff voted to
hold a separate strike in protest at BA's planned sale of its
catering unit. But Robert Ayling, BA's chief executive, said ...