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Jun 25, 2022, 8:18 am

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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave

The unions GMB and Unite have now started the consultation process for a potential strike by call centre staff at Newcastle and Manchester, as well as engineers at LGW and GLA. This would be a separate dispute on a different contract. Since this is just the start of the process, this dispute is some way from leading to a strike, so the threat of both LHR and call centres being out on strike at the same time is not an immediate prospect.

And just to update this, the result of a consultative poll for contact centre staff was released a few hours ago and that gave a 97.3% vote in favour of potentially taking industrial action against BA. This will probably lead to a formal ballot, which has to conform to various legal requirements, but as they say, the writing is on the wall.

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