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TRADE unionists stepped up the fight today against plans by British Airways (BA) to make 12,000 workers redundant and sack and re-employ 42,000 staff on lower pay and worse contracts.
Activists targeted BA corporate customers’ headquarters where they raised banners displaying their campaign slogan “British Airways Stop Betraying Britain.”
Targeted companies included HCL in Surrey, Barclays in Glasgow, Vodafone in Newbury, Microsoft in Reading, GSK in Ulverston and Publicis in London.
The slogan was also displayed on the 66-foot-high Angel of the North sculpture by Anthony Gormley, outside Gateshead in the north-east of England.
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said: “BA is using this health crisis as cover to impose a long-term plan to slash jobs, pay and conditions.
“No other employer has threatened to effectively ‘fire and rehire’ its entire workforce.
“Unite will continue to alert the public, BA’s shareholders and its customers about BA’s disgraceful behaviour. Our union will not stop fighting for BA workers until BA ends its scandalous actions.”
