Update – British Airways cabin crew announce 48-hour strike from 10 January

 

British Airways cabin crew are to stage a 48-hour strike in a dispute over pay. Members of Unite will walk out on January 10, 2017, after rejecting a new pay offer for the so-called “mixed fleet” cabin crew, who have joined the airline in recent years.

 

The union claims employees are being forced to “eke out a living on poverty pay.”

 

British Airways said striking crew represent just 15 per cent of cabin staff and vowed to protect customers from the “unnecessary and completely unjustified action.”

 

Cabin crew were due to walk out on Christmas Day and Boxing Day but the action was suspended after talks at the conciliation service Acas.