British Airways Heathrow staff back summer strikes over pay

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About 700 workers at Heathrow Airport vote in favour of industrial action during the summer holidays.

The GMB claimed that while other British Airways workers have been given a 10% bonus, "the check-in staff have had nothing"."Despite the extremely challenging environment and losses of more than £4bn, we made an offer of a 10% payment which was accepted by the majority of other colleagues," a statement said.

Meanwhile, Nadine Houghton, GMB national officer, said BA had "tried to offer our members crumbs from the table in the form of a 10% one-off bonus payment, but this doesn't cut the mustard". A No 10 spokesman said the government expects BA "to put in place contingency measures to ensure that as little disruption is caused, and that where there is disruption that passengers can be refunded".IT problems and staff shortages have already hit its operations this year. Now you can add industrial action to the mix.

But the problem it's facing is that when the cuts were first imposed, many staff were deeply upset by what they saw as the heavy-handed approach of the airline's management.Jeff Payne worked as a BA supervisor at terminal five at Heathrow, but took voluntary redundancy in August 2020 and is now a postman in Surrey.

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