British Airways workers can win
Stuart Jordan outlines the key issues in the British Airways cabin crew dispute. What’s the strike about? The crux of the dispute is the 1948 Redeployment Agreement, which says that wages and consequently pensions can never be cut. Back in October, in order to address the company’s £600 million losses this year and its £3.7 billion pension fund deficit, BA sought ways of ripping up the redeployment agreement. Their first strategy was to tell staff that a new deal on their terms and conditions was a fait accompli. In a letter, dated 27 October, from Unite national officer Steve Turner to BA...