> The union is seeking to reverse a 10% pay cut on workers imposed during the pandemic. BA says it has offered a 10% one-off bonus, but not a return to the same pay as before.
The air travel industry is struggling to operate properly (and cancelling tens of thousands of people’s holidays) because of staff shortages, but they won’t even put pay back to the *nominal* level it was at a couple of years ago?
Are they a bunch of fucking idiots?
> The GMB trade union finished balloting its BA members working at Heathrow Airport on Thursday morning – announcing shortly after that 95% of workers had voted to strike this summer.
95% is pretty amazing. Getting 95% of a large group of people to agree on absolutely anything is impressive. The 5% of voters saying no is pretty close to the so called [“Lizardman constant”](https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1250408537752305664?lang=en-GB) of people who say yes to questions such as “do lizardpeople run the world?” and “have you ever been decapitated?”
Good news — the more different industries that take action, the more likely the general public is to realise they are justified and support them, imo.
I’ll never understand why businesses continually moan about staff shortages but refuse to put wages up
Based, I whole heartedly support these strikes, it’s about time workers are paid more.
Come on UCU!!!!
More action please … the proposed 3% isn’t going to cut (but props on the “35-hour” weeks and big bumps on the lower scales).
They took a 10% pay cut when times were bad now as things are getting back to normal and you are lacking staff you won’t put their pay back up and offer a one off bonus. Aye nay wonder only the lizard men voted against it 95% is fucking incredible support.
BA management have been treating staff with absolute contempt and have taken covid as an opportunity to set back terms and conditions permanently. Even now as the industry is picking up again and they are short of staff they are determined to maintain the pay cuts imposed during covid.
The pilot body won’t be far behind. While the company forecasts profitability in the last two quarters of this year and the board seeks an enormous bonus package for the CEO, the pilots have been told their temporary pay cut (in addition to their permanent pay cut) is set to last about 30 years. Staff are tired of this shit.
Again, the union seems entirely correct to strike here.
> British Airways workers at Heathrow vote to strike during school summer holidays.
Oh won’t someone think of the children!!1!
This really is setting up for a monumental standoff
I have a flight with BA for a wedding but fuck them Im glad they striking
I am backing them. It’s crazy how they are working people into the ground for profit. Especially in that industry which is the hardest hit and overwhelmed at the moment, too.
Media keeps wanting to paint strikers as monsters, while ignoring the main issues that are being talk about so hopefully more strikes will get the message across
Piers Morgan will be checking profile pictures on Facebook as we speak
So British Airways cut their pay by 10% during the pandemic, now the pandemic is over they want to give them a one-off 10% bonus payment instead of returning their pay to its original level?
Yeah, I’d tell British Airways to shove it and go on strike as well.
Part of me wants to try to join one of these jobs just to then go and join the strike and give them the middle finger 😅
I’m due to fly BA from Heathrow during the summer holidays. I support these strikes 100%, even if it means cancelling our trip. These pay cuts are unacceptable.
Who can afford to go on holiday during the school holidays anyway?!
Can anyone from the Daily Mail help explain to me why I should blame Labour for this?
They did it, the conservatives have taken the UK back in time to the 70s. I shall start wearing flares in solidarity … now wheres my tank top?
I will never understand why companies choose to inflict hundreds of millions of pounds of damage and lost profit (a strike is regarded as being under their airlines control, so they’ll have to pay compensation for all the cancelled flights) rather than pay a few million to restore the workers pay. Like.. they’re supposedly genuises with MBAs earning millions themselves per year…
I hope they strike. I hope they win. I hope they get their 10% pay rise and all their scab colleagues who surrendered get nothing.
I have a flight booked there during the holidays so this could mess up my holiday a bit but totally support this action after reading up on it.
YES, YESSSS a summer of chaos is what we’ve needed for years. Finally this country is getting off it’s arse and standing up for itself.
The strike action seems to be spreading to more and more industries. It makes sense, something had to give. Workers in the UK have been royally fucking shafted for the most part over the past decade+ and the pot was going to boil over at some point.
Getting 95% of the workers to vote for the strike is an incredible result and demonstrates nicely that fucking over the staff to boost the bottom line to the point of ridiculousness can not be allowed to go on.
I wonder which industry will be next.
Good! General strike next please. Shut the country down and attack these pricks where it hurts. In the pockets.
Brilliant 👏 we need more strikes ,bring the government to it’s knees.
Don’t give a fuck if you’re down 4 billion. That’s on the business not the staff. Why do the employees have to shoulder the risk. At the bare minimum pass it onto the customers
Was the 10% cut during the pandemic company-wide? Just interesting to hear if those at the top received, and currently still have a 10% cut on their 2020 salary as well.
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Great to see the working class stand up for its interests again
Glad to see many supporting this
I hope it continues as businesses are too greedy.
I can’t say I’m impacted in this case but I fly Ryanair from Stanstead in late July, if strikes go ahead there and then, then they will impact on me and I will still support the unions. What BA is doing his scummy, I can’t imagine its limited to only that airline.
The thing that always staggers me is that the government is SO corrupted and self serving they don’t step in to stop this kind of thing. Governments are supposed to be for the people, protecting their interests, but the world over govts are just as ready to fuck over hard working yobbos like us a big business is.
I really hope the Revolution is televised, or at least streamed.
That’s my holiday fucked potentially but I’m still supporting the strikers. Every company was quick enough to plead poverty and slash employees compensations and benefits when the pandemic kicked off and now they’re dragging their heels and fucking about about even returning the status quo. Fuck ‘em. Fuck ‘em all. Strike even if they cave. Time to show them a lesson.
Bring it on. I invite every profession being shat on to finally retaliate. It’s only taken a over a decade but slowly the British are waking up.
I swear business managers are all just thick as fucking pudding. The cost of this strike will be far worse than having a happy, well paid workforce. Loyalty, enthusiasm, happiness, and all those types of thing profit a business. It’s not all just fucking numbers in a balance boom – treat your staff well and business will take care of itself. I can’t believe we still have to push this point in the year of our Lord twenty twenty fucking two.
Honestly I’m ready for a general strike. I want a complete and total shift in the balance of wealth and power. I’m so fucking sick of fat cats and greedy billionaires being far too comfortable while the rest of us fight over crumbs and the world burns around us. I hate this fucking planet.
Until the entire senior management is sacked the “global” brand of BA will remain in the gutter. They are protecting one thing and one thing only. Their “interests”. That came directly from the mouth of senior management. BA is not fit to hold an operating license.
Good luck! I’m glad people are waking up and no longer taking this crap lying down.
Wife and I have been saving up to go away. We are teachers, so can only go away during school holidays (and pay more for it). This could ruin our plans.
Good for them striking. Working people are my people. I support anyone going on strike.
I’ll say it again.
Wait till the dustmen start striking.
This country will be waist deep in it’s own filth with in a month.
Who’s surprised at this point. Companies refuse to pay their works a living wage and across the country people strike or leave their jobs. Happened during the pandemic where many young people just quit due to bad pay. Now we have strikes with the train workers and now this. Im not really sure what they expect. The more disgruntled the population get the more strikes or people quoting are going to happen. But borris will sort it. He’ll give the elderly bus passes to stay warm and blue passports.
Good. Every sector needs to start striking. Grind the country to a halt until the Tory fucks actually do something to help the working class.
Wholeheartedly support this. We live in a time where the rich are richer than ever and there are higher percentages of people living in sustained poverty than we’ve seen in generations. May the strikes long continue!
The reason for this strike is unbelievable anyway. Fuck BA.
Flights are far too cheap relative to their environmental damage also. Pay better, charge more, pay fewer people six-figure salaries.
Great interview with the trade union rep on BBC who quite clearly stated the business owners stripped £1.5 Billion of profits from BA . Forensic accounting by the trade unions is exposing the greed
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> The union is seeking to reverse a 10% pay cut on workers imposed during the pandemic. BA says it has offered a 10% one-off bonus, but not a return to the same pay as before.
The air travel industry is struggling to operate properly (and cancelling tens of thousands of people’s holidays) because of staff shortages, but they won’t even put pay back to the *nominal* level it was at a couple of years ago?
Are they a bunch of fucking idiots?
> The GMB trade union finished balloting its BA members working at Heathrow Airport on Thursday morning – announcing shortly after that 95% of workers had voted to strike this summer.
95% is pretty amazing. Getting 95% of a large group of people to agree on absolutely anything is impressive. The 5% of voters saying no is pretty close to the so called [“Lizardman constant”](https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1250408537752305664?lang=en-GB) of people who say yes to questions such as “do lizardpeople run the world?” and “have you ever been decapitated?”
Good news — the more different industries that take action, the more likely the general public is to realise they are justified and support them, imo.
I’ll never understand why businesses continually moan about staff shortages but refuse to put wages up
Based, I whole heartedly support these strikes, it’s about time workers are paid more.
Come on UCU!!!!
More action please … the proposed 3% isn’t going to cut (but props on the “35-hour” weeks and big bumps on the lower scales).
https://www.ucu.org.uk/media/12821/UCEA-final-pay-offer-2022-23-May-22/pdf/UCEA_final_offer_letter_-_9_May_2022.pdf
They took a 10% pay cut when times were bad now as things are getting back to normal and you are lacking staff you won’t put their pay back up and offer a one off bonus. Aye nay wonder only the lizard men voted against it 95% is fucking incredible support.
BA management have been treating staff with absolute contempt and have taken covid as an opportunity to set back terms and conditions permanently. Even now as the industry is picking up again and they are short of staff they are determined to maintain the pay cuts imposed during covid.
The pilot body won’t be far behind. While the company forecasts profitability in the last two quarters of this year and the board seeks an enormous bonus package for the CEO, the pilots have been told their temporary pay cut (in addition to their permanent pay cut) is set to last about 30 years. Staff are tired of this shit.
Again, the union seems entirely correct to strike here.
> British Airways workers at Heathrow vote to strike during school summer holidays.
Oh won’t someone think of the children!!1!
This really is setting up for a monumental standoff
I have a flight with BA for a wedding but fuck them Im glad they striking
I am backing them. It’s crazy how they are working people into the ground for profit. Especially in that industry which is the hardest hit and overwhelmed at the moment, too.
Media keeps wanting to paint strikers as monsters, while ignoring the main issues that are being talk about so hopefully more strikes will get the message across
Piers Morgan will be checking profile pictures on Facebook as we speak
So British Airways cut their pay by 10% during the pandemic, now the pandemic is over they want to give them a one-off 10% bonus payment instead of returning their pay to its original level?
Yeah, I’d tell British Airways to shove it and go on strike as well.
Part of me wants to try to join one of these jobs just to then go and join the strike and give them the middle finger 😅
I’m due to fly BA from Heathrow during the summer holidays. I support these strikes 100%, even if it means cancelling our trip. These pay cuts are unacceptable.
Who can afford to go on holiday during the school holidays anyway?!
Can anyone from the Daily Mail help explain to me why I should blame Labour for this?
They did it, the conservatives have taken the UK back in time to the 70s. I shall start wearing flares in solidarity … now wheres my tank top?
I will never understand why companies choose to inflict hundreds of millions of pounds of damage and lost profit (a strike is regarded as being under their airlines control, so they’ll have to pay compensation for all the cancelled flights) rather than pay a few million to restore the workers pay. Like.. they’re supposedly genuises with MBAs earning millions themselves per year…
I hope they strike. I hope they win. I hope they get their 10% pay rise and all their scab colleagues who surrendered get nothing.
I have a flight booked there during the holidays so this could mess up my holiday a bit but totally support this action after reading up on it.
YES, YESSSS a summer of chaos is what we’ve needed for years. Finally this country is getting off it’s arse and standing up for itself.
The strike action seems to be spreading to more and more industries. It makes sense, something had to give. Workers in the UK have been royally fucking shafted for the most part over the past decade+ and the pot was going to boil over at some point.
Getting 95% of the workers to vote for the strike is an incredible result and demonstrates nicely that fucking over the staff to boost the bottom line to the point of ridiculousness can not be allowed to go on.
I wonder which industry will be next.
Good! General strike next please. Shut the country down and attack these pricks where it hurts. In the pockets.
Brilliant 👏 we need more strikes ,bring the government to it’s knees.
Don’t give a fuck if you’re down 4 billion. That’s on the business not the staff. Why do the employees have to shoulder the risk. At the bare minimum pass it onto the customers
Was the 10% cut during the pandemic company-wide? Just interesting to hear if those at the top received, and currently still have a 10% cut on their 2020 salary as well.
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Great to see the working class stand up for its interests again
Glad to see many supporting this
I hope it continues as businesses are too greedy.
I can’t say I’m impacted in this case but I fly Ryanair from Stanstead in late July, if strikes go ahead there and then, then they will impact on me and I will still support the unions. What BA is doing his scummy, I can’t imagine its limited to only that airline.
The thing that always staggers me is that the government is SO corrupted and self serving they don’t step in to stop this kind of thing. Governments are supposed to be for the people, protecting their interests, but the world over govts are just as ready to fuck over hard working yobbos like us a big business is.
I really hope the Revolution is televised, or at least streamed.
That’s my holiday fucked potentially but I’m still supporting the strikers. Every company was quick enough to plead poverty and slash employees compensations and benefits when the pandemic kicked off and now they’re dragging their heels and fucking about about even returning the status quo. Fuck ‘em. Fuck ‘em all. Strike even if they cave. Time to show them a lesson.
Bring it on. I invite every profession being shat on to finally retaliate. It’s only taken a over a decade but slowly the British are waking up.
I swear business managers are all just thick as fucking pudding. The cost of this strike will be far worse than having a happy, well paid workforce. Loyalty, enthusiasm, happiness, and all those types of thing profit a business. It’s not all just fucking numbers in a balance boom – treat your staff well and business will take care of itself. I can’t believe we still have to push this point in the year of our Lord twenty twenty fucking two.
Honestly I’m ready for a general strike. I want a complete and total shift in the balance of wealth and power. I’m so fucking sick of fat cats and greedy billionaires being far too comfortable while the rest of us fight over crumbs and the world burns around us. I hate this fucking planet.
Until the entire senior management is sacked the “global” brand of BA will remain in the gutter. They are protecting one thing and one thing only. Their “interests”. That came directly from the mouth of senior management. BA is not fit to hold an operating license.
Good luck! I’m glad people are waking up and no longer taking this crap lying down.
Wife and I have been saving up to go away. We are teachers, so can only go away during school holidays (and pay more for it). This could ruin our plans.
Good for them striking. Working people are my people. I support anyone going on strike.
I’ll say it again.
Wait till the dustmen start striking.
This country will be waist deep in it’s own filth with in a month.
Who’s surprised at this point. Companies refuse to pay their works a living wage and across the country people strike or leave their jobs. Happened during the pandemic where many young people just quit due to bad pay. Now we have strikes with the train workers and now this. Im not really sure what they expect. The more disgruntled the population get the more strikes or people quoting are going to happen. But borris will sort it. He’ll give the elderly bus passes to stay warm and blue passports.
Good. Every sector needs to start striking. Grind the country to a halt until the Tory fucks actually do something to help the working class.
Wholeheartedly support this. We live in a time where the rich are richer than ever and there are higher percentages of people living in sustained poverty than we’ve seen in generations. May the strikes long continue!
The reason for this strike is unbelievable anyway. Fuck BA.
Flights are far too cheap relative to their environmental damage also. Pay better, charge more, pay fewer people six-figure salaries.
Great interview with the trade union rep on BBC who quite clearly stated the business owners stripped £1.5 Billion of profits from BA . Forensic accounting by the trade unions is exposing the greed