Union hits back at ‘shameful’ BA

GMB, the union for aviation workers, said it was a “sad and shameful” day for the company with BA workers left hurt, angry and demoralised by the airline’s behaviour. Accusing the company of “bad faith”, the union said BA had used the threat of fire and rehire to transform the prospect of a decent deal […]

BA pulling out of Gatwick ‘throwing staff on scrapheap’

Workers suffering serious mental health issues over prospect of job cuts says GMB Union. British Airway’s behaviour as it pulls out of Gatwick Airport amounts to ‘throwing us on the scrapheap, says GMB members. Britain’s flagship carrier announced they are pulling out of Gatwick with threats of hundreds of redundancies and transferring staff to one of its sister companies, Gatwick Ground Services (GGS). […]

UK government’s self-quarantine plans ‘threatens’ UK economy and aviation

The UK government’s plans for 14 days self-quarantining of arrivals, will spell disaster for many workers in Britain’s beleaguered aviation industry, says GMB, the union for aviation staff. It has warned the UK government that its plans to introduce 14 day self-quarantine for UK arrivals ‘threatens thousands of jobs’. From today (Monday June 8) arrivals […]

GMB: Stop sackings at airports

GMB London, the union for airport workers, is calling for urgent action from governments to stop aviation employers and their insurance companies from deeming the current crisis in the air passenger industry as arising from “an act of God” that enables them to trigger clauses providing for the forced ending of employment contracts. GMB has stated […]

Unions team up to submit unprecedented joint BA pay claim 

British Airways has allowed a employees to become disconnected from airline’s success, say UK trade unions Unite, BALPA and GMB. They have teamed up to submit an unprecedented joint pay claim in to the airlines. The three unions are working together to seek improvements to pay from January 2019, as well as enhanced profit-sharing arrangements and […]