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The British Airlines crew doesn't give up
by Zivka Deleva

The five-day strike in the British Airways ended today. The High Court from London brought a decision that the cabin crew should return to work and everything to go back where it stopped. The air company main argument in front of the Court was that there had been an irregularity in the ballot of airline staff by the Unite Union. The crew isn’t accepting yet the decision and expect for more talking. According to the Union, this decision represents a "landmark attack on free trade unionism and the right to take industrial action". They plan to appeal the injunction. This is for the second time that the High Court in only six months has granted an injunction only after ! an announcement for a strike. Since today there will be no more delaying of the flights and the passengers will no longer be nervous. The crew was protesting because with similar injunctions the freedom of expression was destructed and against the Human Rights Act from 1998 of the European Convention. The Unite is not going to give up the fight and on Thursday is going to ask for a new court decision which they say it is unbelievable and not accept the one that forbids them to strike. The company’s fact is that the Unite made a technical mistake with the way they tried to organize the strike. "It does bring into question whether we have a right to strike in this country," – said Tony Woodley, joint head of the union. He explains that just because the Union didn’t inform 11 of its 11.000 members, that didn’t give the company a right to stop the striking procedure. The both sides dispute over pay, after BA decided to save 62.5 million pounds a ye! ar to get along with the bad demand and the bigger competition! .

by Zivka Deleva for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

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