BA Strike averted (temporarily?)

[CASHIPman]

BA won a injunction barring the planned cabin crew strike.

http://twitter.com/iDeskCNN/bastrike

[WesW]

Good travel news for BA flyers, thx for sharing Craig

[Keith1010]

I was just listening to a report about this on CNN. Glad to hear that it has been blocked. Never a good time for an strike but over the holidays was just terrible. Good news for everyone holding BA tickets.

 

Keith

[dougburns]

I'm not sure an injunction, which is usually temporary, will hold. SS switched us to Continental and I'm not sure they would want to switch us back.

[swindy]

Well, I am extremely relieved as it looks like our outbound BA flights will be okay. However, the Inbound ones could be a totally different story!!!!

[Host Dan]

If this ends up like past events, don't be surprised if cabin crew all call in sick...

 

Host Dan

[swindy]

That's right....let's remain positive!!!

[dougburns]

The SS folks seem to think that the strike is off for the holiday period and they are re-booking people on BA at no additional cost(if that's what you had before the strike announcement). We're going to wait till Monday to make a decision. The BA sched is much more convenient for us than the Continental one. I agree with Dan though. Quite often these types of actions result in sickouts and slowdowns.

[DebbieH103]

I replied to this in the maiden thread, as I did not see this one. Doug, I sent you the rules about switching out. I received them in an email. You may want to check into it, there is a lot of info there, though I am unaffected and have not checked it out.

[unfathomable]

I'm not sure an injunction, which is usually temporary, will hold.

Yup, in the UK you can expect the injunction to hold. The union is already talking about organizing a re-ballot, but that will take weeks. According to today's news, many of those who voted for a strike were shocked when the union announced a 12-day strike. Who knows what that will do for the re-ballot.