Potential Ba cabin crew strikes could ruin school holidays

Ba cabin crew could seriously risk being lynched, as they have the potential to cause more strikes and disruption to families over the school holidays.

Cabin crew union Unite’s joint general secretary Derek Simpson said today that they would ballot members on further strikes.

But before any further strike action, a vote needs to be taken, which will take around six weeks to complete, and will be followed by a mandatory seven-day notice period.

This means that any further industrial action by BA cabin crew, will spill into the school holiday period with currently no sign that either side is prepared to give ground.

The travel trade could face the nightmare scenario to trying to rebook thousands of British Airways passengers over the summer peak if cabin crew vote for fresh strike action.

Today is the last scheduled strike day – and so far cabin crew have taken 22 days of industrial action since March in the bitter dispute over pay and conditions.

Which quite frankly, is no way to behave in this day and age – The job center is just full of vacancies for Cabin crew…

A spokesman for cabin crew union Unite said it was always open to talks with BA but that none had been scheduled.

“We are ready to ask our members for another ballot but there are no details of the time plan,” he said.

BA claims to have operated 80% of long-haul and 60% of short-haul services during the latest five-day stoppage.