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British Airways cabin crew begin three day strike

British Airways cabin crew begin three day strike

United Kingdom

British Airways cabin crew are staging a fresh wave of strikes from Sunday.

Three days of industrial action will be followed by a further three day walkout from Thursday in a row over wages. It involves more recent recruits to the airline who claim to be on ‘poverty pay’.

Time to end poverty pay at BA | BA vows all customers will fly to destinations despite strike https://t.co/GpA2FLQvr2

— Unite the union (@unitetheunion) 3 février 2017

BA has given reassurances about flights from London, saying that less than one percent of services will be affected.

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