{"id":10963,"date":"2017-01-10T11:43:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T11:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10963"},"modified":"2017-01-10T19:17:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T19:17:36","slug":"staff-cant-afford-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10963","title":{"rendered":"Staff can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t afford to be sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>It might have been a dark, wintry, early start for Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BA \u00e2\u20ac\u0098mixed fleet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 members but their spirits were undeterred as they started <span lang=\"EN-US\">their 48-hour strike today (January 10) over poverty pay levels at the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s national carrier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unite members are pictured at this morning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rally outside Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Heathrow offices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bGoing on strike is never an easy decision, so we are pleased with the numbers of &#8216;mixed fleet&#8217; cabin crew who have taken the courageous step to take a stand against poverty pay at British Airways,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented Unite national officer Oliver Richardson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is a low paid workforce struggling to make ends meet on wages which are among the lowest in the airline industry. It is to the shame of British Airways, a company which prides itself as a &#8216;premium brand&#8217;, that members of its loyal workforce are forced to take second jobs to make ends meet or turn up to work unfit to fly because they can&#8217;t afford to take the day off sick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bRefusing to meaningfully address the concerns of &#8216;mixed fleet&#8217; cabin crew and instead seeking to poison industrial relations through confrontation does passengers a disservice and will lead to plummeting morale.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe would urge British Airways to listen to our members and address their legitimate concerns over poverty pay.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Pic by Mark Thomas<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might have been a dark, wintry, early start for Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BA \u00e2\u20ac\u0098mixed fleet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 members but their spirits were undeterred as they started their 48-hour strike today (January 10) over poverty pay levels at the UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s national carrier. &nbsp; Unite members are pictured at this morning\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rally outside Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Heathrow offices. &nbsp; \u00e2\u20ac\u015bGoing on strike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[390,96,215],"wps_subtitle":"Shame of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098premium\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 flyer BA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10965,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions\/10965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}