{"id":3496,"date":"2010-01-25T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2010-01-25T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T11:37:24","slug":"british-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/british-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways cabin crew begin strike vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The ballot closes on 22 February and the earliest possible strike date is 1 March.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/british-airways.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3497\" title=\"British Airways\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/british-airways-280x157.jpg\" alt=\"British Airways\" width=\"280\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/british-airways-280x157.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/british-airways.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>British Airways cabin crew begin voting today in a strike ballot that could ground the airline in the run-up to Easter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Unite trade union is polling around 12,000 crew members over staffing cuts, after a vote for a 12-day walkout over Christmas was thrown out by the high court.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at BASSA, the Unite cabin crew branch, admitted in an email to members that some might be considering a no vote following the legal decision and the negative publicity surrounding the previous poll.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are crew, the same as you, and we pick up the vibe that some of you may be considering voting NO this time around.&#8221; The email added: &#8220;If you do vote No, nobody will blame you, but one day you just might blame yourself. Do not be under the illusion that we will all live to fight another day, we won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Your days as a strong, unionised workforce will be numbered.&#8221; The ballot closes on 22 February and the earliest possible strike date is 1 March, although Unite has already ruled out an Easter walkout.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 6)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways cabin crew begin voting today in a strike ballot that could ground the airline in the run-up to Easter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118],"tags":[4526,509,507,4525],"class_list":["post-3496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","tag-bassa","tag-british-airway","tag-british-airways","tag-british-airways-cabin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}