BA warned over cost-cutting measures

Unions have warned British Airways (BA) that the airline’s cost-cutting
measures must not include compulsory redundancies, and should recognise the
value added by staff, who have delivered around £700m in savings since 2001.

BA said it would cut costs by £300m over the next two years, with an
expected loss of a further 4,000 jobs over the next 12 months.

This will amount to cost cuts of 30 per cent at the airline’s head office
and 15 per cent in operational areas.

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Brendan Gold, the T&G union’s national secretary for civil aviation,
warned that the price of members’ co-operation would be no compulsory
redundancies.

The T&G union has 30,000 members at BA.