{"id":21260,"date":"2020-05-01T17:31:10","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=21260"},"modified":"2020-05-01T17:31:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T16:31:10","slug":"smash-and-grab-opportunism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=21260","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0098Smash and grab opportunism\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Unite the union has accused British Airways&#8217; parent company IAG of a two-faced approach to its operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>Spanish bailout<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite made its comments after it emerged that Iberian airlines and Vueling the Spanish carriers of British Airways\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 parent company IAG had negotiated \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1 billion worth of loans from the Spanish government to offset the impact of the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unitetheunion.org\/news-events\/news\/2020\/april\/mccluskey-ba-mass-sackings-unlawful-and-immoral-and-imperils-the-whole-of-uk-aviation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">British Airways has refused to seek financial assistance from the UK government and is instead proposing to cut 12,000 jobs and is seeking to reduce the terms and conditions of its remaining employees.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4><strong>BA smash and grab<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Unite national officer for aviation Oliver Richardson said: \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe fact that Iberian airlines is seeking support from the Spanish government should be welcomed and is a common sense approach to preserving jobs and services, following the immense damage the COVID-19 pandemic has caused to the aviation sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWhat is concerning is that the parent company IAG is not seeking a similar solution for British Airways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is another gross insult to the UK workforce that BA plans to send to the dole. &nbsp;We appeal to IAG to give our members the same support as they are giving to their Spanish employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bRather than seeking to preserve jobs and workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 terms and conditions and act for the good of the UK&nbsp;aviation sector, British Airways is guilty of an act of smash and grab opportunism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThis is designed to boost its profits in the future and to try to force other operators out of the UK aviation sector.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Airways accused of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098two-faced approach\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as parent company accepts one billion Spanish bailout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1308,1],"tags":[589,390,1295],"wps_subtitle":"British Airways accused of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098two-faced approach\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as parent company accepts one billion Spanish bailout","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21260"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21262,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21260\/revisions\/21262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}