British Airways crew suspended over online bullying

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British Airways has suspended 15 cabin crew over reports of intimidation relating to comments posted online, it was reported today.

The airline is currently in a dispute with the union, Unite, over schedules. Unite is threatening a walk-out and is currently re-balloting its 12,000 members to strike.

The verdict is due on February 22 and if industrial action does go ahead it will be on March 1.

It appears British Airways came across a chatroom on the Unite union's website and deemed the language in some of the comments to amount to "intimidation", Sky News reported.

The comments are thought to relate to the signing of the ballot for strike action.

The airline said it has taken steps to suspend crew that it knows have posted or it suspects have posted the comments in question on there.

British Airways said: "We will not tolerate intimidation of staff and any reports of staff being threatened will be thoroughly investigated.

"The company has contacted Unite regarding inappropriate comments posted on a union website and has asked it to assist in removing the postings and identifying the individuals who are involved."

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They're talking about another strike? Is it just me or is anyone else thinking sack the damned lot of them (the ones who want to strike that is) and get people in who actually want to work? This is getting utterly ridiculous. I'm not by any means saying they don't have a point, but when the company is basically up s**t creek, the industry isn't doing massively well and the country as a whole is very much not booming, I really don't think this is the time to be kicking up too much of a fuss. It seems like backward logic at its best. :confused:

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They're talking about another strike? Is it just me or is anyone else thinking sack the damned lot of them (the ones who want to strike that is) and get people in who actually want to work?

Paul


Happened here in 1989 and it threw the entire nation into chaos

http://www.takver.com/history/pilotsdispute1989.htm

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Is it just me or is anyone else thinking sack the damned lot of them (the ones who want to strike that is) and get people in who actually want to work?

Completely agree, if only it were that simple. This situation is running BA into the ground at a faster rate than you eat cheeseburgers!

Another reason not to fly BA….

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Completely agree, if only it were that simple. This situation is running BA into the ground at a faster rate than you eat cheeseburgers!

Another reason not to fly BA….

I'd better speed up then! I'm not being beaten by a bunch of whinging BA people.

-heads to BK-

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They're talking about another strike? Is it just me or is anyone else thinking sack the damned lot of them (the ones who want to strike that is) and get people in who actually want to work? This is getting utterly ridiculous. I'm not by any means saying they don't have a point, but when the company is basically up s**t creek, the industry isn't doing massively well and the country as a whole is very much not booming, I really don't think this is the time to be kicking up too much of a fuss. It seems like backward logic at its best. :confused:

Paul

Could not agree more. It seems to me that BA has more to worry about due to the conduct of some of its own employees than from competition from other carriers. I don't think I've seen such a determination by a company's employees to bite off the hand that feeds them for many years. BA should start advertising for new cabin staff.......I don't think that they would have to advertise for very long :mad: