{"id":369286,"date":"2020-08-22T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T04:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=369286"},"modified":"2020-08-22T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T05:12:08","slug":"british-airways-increasingly-likely-to-face-strike-action-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/british-airways-increasingly-likely-to-face-strike-action-union\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways increasingly likely to face strike action: Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways is increasingly likely to face strike action this autumn, as the trade union representing cabin crew said that new contracts offered to the airline&#8217;s remaining staff did not offer enough stability and could cut pay substantially.<\/p>\n<p>Unite, the trade union, first threatened BA with strike action in July. After a union meeting on Thursday, a spokesman said that he would instruct lawyers to proceed to industrial action.<\/p>\n<p>But any strike action, which would need to be approved by a vote, is likely to be some weeks away given that Unite has yet to formally start the process.<\/p>\n<p>BA on Friday said that it had &#8220;received no notification of any ballot for industrial action&#8221;, the first step in a weeks-long process which precedes any strike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways is increasingly likely to face strike action this autumn, as the trade union representing cabin crew said that new contracts offered to the airline&#8217;s remaining staff did not offer enough stability and could cut pay substantially. Unite, the trade union, first threatened BA with strike action in July. After a union meeting on Thursday, a spokesman said that he would instruct lawyers to proceed to industrial action. But any strike action, which would need to be approved by a vote, is likely to be some weeks away given that Unite has yet to formally start the process. BA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}