{"id":21807,"date":"2020-05-29T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T11:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=21807"},"modified":"2020-05-29T12:30:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T11:30:32","slug":"ba-betrayal-customers-and-partners-alerted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=21807","title":{"rendered":"BA betrayal: customers and partners\u00c2\u00a0alerted\u00c2\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Campaigners\u00c2\u00a0across the UK are\u00c2\u00a0alerting BA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s corporate customers and partners about the firm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans to use the Covid-19 crisis to fire its entire workforce and re-hire those that do survive the cull, on completely new lesser contracts of employment.<\/p>\n<p>This week campaigners have been alerting companies including\u00c2\u00a0HCL in Surrey, Barclays in Glasgow, Vodafone in Newbury, Microsoft, in Reading, GSK\u00c2\u00a0in Ulverston and Publicis in London, about BA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s betrayal of\u00c2\u00a0its staff and\u00c2\u00a0the British public.<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend \u00e2\u20ac\u0098BA Betrayal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 night\u00c2\u00a0time\u00c2\u00a0projections adorned iconic landmarks across the UK including Marble Arch, the Houses of Parliament, Harrods, The Angel of the North and the Scottish Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThere is growing\u00c2\u00a0public opinion against BA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grotesque behaviour,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 commented Unite general secretary, Len McCluskey.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bBA is using this health crisis as cover to impose a long-term plan to slash jobs, pay and conditions.\u00c2\u00a0No other employer has threatened to effectively \u00e2\u20ac\u0098fire and rehire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 its entire workforce.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOver 40,000 loyal BA staff now face the prospect of losing either their livelihoods or potentially being re-interviewed for their own jobs on vastly reduced terms and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe public have responded with anger when they learn about British Airways\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 plans. They expect an iconic company like BA to be working in the interests of the nation, not attacking its own loyal workforce during the worst health crisis in a century,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite will continue to alert the public, BA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shareholders and its customers about BA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s disgraceful behaviour. Our union will not stop fighting for BA workers until BA ends its\u00c2\u00a0scandalous actions,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 added McCluskey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JOIN THE CAMPAIGN \u00e2\u20ac\u201c SHARE THIS STORY <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twitter:\u00c2\u00a0@BABetrayal,\u00c2\u00a0Facebook:\u00c2\u00a0Facebook.com\/BAbetrayal<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Ciaran Naidoo <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week campaigners have been alerting companies including\u00c2\u00a0HCL in Surrey, Barclays in Glasgow, Vodafone in Newbury, Microsoft, in Reading, GSK\u00c2\u00a0in Ulverston and Publicis in London, about BA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s betrayal of\u00c2\u00a0its staff and\u00c2\u00a0the British public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1308,1],"tags":[390,1295],"wps_subtitle":"The British Airways\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 betrayal\u00c2\u00a0of Britain campaign\u00c2\u00a0steps up a gear","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21807"}],"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=21807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21809,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21807\/revisions\/21809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}