Unite Scotland has today (June 14) welcomed the news that up to 35 cabin crew jobs at risk of redundancy across Scottish airports have now been saved thanks to innovative training courses supported…Read more…
Heroes and zeroes
Every Friday here on UniteLIVE, we bring you all the latest heroes and zeroes amid the coronavirus crisis. Here are this week’s latest. HEROES Unite member Kofi Opoku This week Unite paid special…Read more…
‘Crass and insensitive’
When work and pensions and secretary Therese Coffey said in an interview this week that her relative anonymity meant she was doing her job well, she may not have anticipated how her shocking comments…Read more…
Fume event inquiry
Unite has renewed calls for an inquiry into toxic cabin air after nearly 200 British Airways passengers had to be evacuated after their aircraft filled with smoke. The flight from London…Read more…
Toxic cabin air warning
The senior coroner in the inquest into the death of Matthew Bass, the much loved member of Unite and British Airways’ cabin crew, has taken the significant step of agreeing to write to the chief…Read more…
Toxic trip?
As the last bank holiday of the summer approaches this weekend (August 28), hundreds of thousands of UK holidaymakers may fly to get to their destination – safe in the knowledge that flying is the…Read more…
BA strike goes on
Unite members working as cabin crew for British Airways’ mixed fleet today (August 11) urged the airline to get around the negotiating table to avoid continued legal action and the cost of ‘wet…Read more…
‘Poverty pay’ vote
Thousands of cabin crew working for British Airways ‘Mixed Fleet’ will begin voting on strike action next Wednesday (November 16) in a dispute over ‘poverty’ pay levels which are leading to crew…Read more…