British Airways workers have voted to strike during the school summer holidays in a move set to cause more travel chaos as the industry struggles to recover from the pandemic
To judge from today's vote by check-in staff, who are members of Unite, BA still appears to have a Heathrow problem.
To that can be overlaid the generally challenging industrial relations at BA - which are a legacy of its past as a state-owned industry. Its efforts have been hampered by IT failures and staff shortages - the company refusing to confirm that it had shot itself in the foot during an"We don't want to see any further disruption for passengers and strike action would only add to the misery being faced by passengers at airports," he told reporters.
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