Unite reaction to news that BA has withdrawn offer
Friday, 12 March 2010
12:00 AM
Unite Assistant General Secretary and lead negotiator with British Airways Len McCluskey said:
"The TUC, which has brokered our talks with BA, this morning welcomed our decision to put management's offer to our members. Now we learn via the media that apparently the offer has been withdrawn.
"This beggars belief, putting it beyond doubt that confrontation has been management's intention throughout, and that BA has never had any intention of seeking agreement.
"The company is now stopping its own employees from having a voice on an offer that could possibly have ended the dispute. If there are wiser heads at British Airways now is the time for them to be heard from.
"It is now the cabin crew who are defending the British Airways brand against the Willie Walsh brand of management by machismo."
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