The agreement includes a two-year pay deal and the return of travel perks for
staff who took part in walkouts last year
British Airways cabin crew will begin voting on a peace deal this week that
could end the airline's worst industrial dispute.
The Unite trade union is preparing to post ballot papers to nearly 10,000 crew
with a letter from its general secretary, Len McCluskey, recommending a vote
in favour of the agreement. The poll on the latest attempt to end the
industrial conflict will close on 22 June, 18 months after Unite opened its
first strike ballot on the dispute. So far the only indication of support for
the deal is approximate, after hundreds of crew attending a meeting at
Heathrow airport this month backed a proposal to put the deal to a wider vote.
The peace deal being voted on was thrashed out between McCluskey and BA's new
chief executive, Keith Williams, after two previous agreements were rejected
by Unite. Both sides issued conciliatory statements when the agreement was
unveiled, with Unite's leader praising the approach of his BA counterpart this
month.
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