{"id":4498,"date":"2010-03-15T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=4498"},"modified":"2010-03-15T17:17:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T15:17:13","slug":"gordon-brown-british-airways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/gordon-brown-british-airways\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Brown wants British Airways to call off strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gordon-brown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4499\" title=\"Gordon Brown want to British Airways to call off strike\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gordon-brown-280x182.jpg\" alt=\"Gordon Brown want to British Airways to call off strike\" width=\"280\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gordon-brown-280x182.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/gordon-brown.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>British Prime Minister Gordon Brown waded into the acrimonious dispute between British Airways PLC and its cabin crew on Monday, calling a planned strike by workers &#8220;deplorable&#8221; and urging union leaders to cancel the walkout.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Radio 4&#8217;s Woman&#8217;s Hour, Gordon Brown said the walk-outs should be called off. The strongly-worded stance puts him on a collision course with members of Unite, the country&#8217;s largest union &#8211; and one of Labour&#8217;s biggest donors.<\/p>\n<p>The union has given \u00a311million to the party over the last four years and boasts 160 members within Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Also, its political director is Mr Brown&#8217;s close ally and former spin doctor Charlie Whelan.<\/p>\n<p>Until today, the Prime Minister faced walking a tightrope between avoiding upsetting his union paymasters and intervening in a damaging pre-election BA strike.<\/p>\n<p>The intervention by Mr Brown follows the forthright comments made by Transport Secretary Lord Adonis yesterday.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 13)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Gordon Brown waded into the acrimonious dispute between British Airways PLC and its cabin crew on Monday, calling a planned strike by workers &#8220;deplorable&#8221; and urging union leaders to cancel the walkout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,51,17,118],"tags":[507,513,708,799,5619,803,514],"class_list":["post-4498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-economy","category-europe","category-hot","tag-british-airways","tag-british-airways-strike","tag-british-prime-minister-gordon-brown","tag-gordon-brown","tag-gordon-brown-british-airways","tag-prime-minister-gordon-brown","tag-strike-british-airways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498","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=4498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}