BA Pilots May Strike
March 14, 2008
Oh dear, looks like we may have travel chaos over the Easter holiday period!
Talks with British Airways 3,200 pilots have broken down, meaning we could be about to see the BA pilots first strike in over 30 years. Today, their union, Balpa, will hold an emergency meeting which will result in a decision on whether or not they will issue dates for industrial action.
Conciliation talks with the intermediary Acas broke down last week and BA has threated a High Court injunction to stop any strike action.
These talks have come about because of British Airway’s plans to open a new subsidiary airline called Openskies, which would recruit pilots externally. This would mean the two pilot workforces would have different employment contracts with separate pay and working conditions. The union wants a single pilot community, so both airlines would operate using the same working conditions.
A strike would cost BA a small fortune with their entire groundforce worldwide unable to operate.
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