Welcome decision.But what if they go on strike?What can the court do,?utmost it will advise the Government to take action.The Government ,depending on vote bank politics, may decide to overlook the recommendation.Ultimately the passengers will suffer.Why this sham of a court injunction?
These court jokes are order of the day in India.
A strike by British Airways cabin crew planned for Christmas has been declared illegal in a High Court ruling.
The court agreed with BA that the cabin crew’s union, Unite, had not correctly balloted its members on the strike action.
The injunction means that the 12-day strike cannot now go ahead.
Unite called it “a disgraceful day for democracy” and vowed to hold a fresh ballot of cabin crew if the dispute with BA was not resolved.
British Airways said the decision would be welcomed by “hundreds of thousands of families in the UK and around the world”.
“There was never any need for a strike and we hope that Unite will take this opportunity to reflect before deciding its next steps,” a statement from the company said.
“In recent days, we believe Unite has formed a better understanding of our position and of the ways in which we could move forward.
“It has also become very clear that our customers do not believe that old-style trade union militancy is relevant to our efforts to move British Airways back toward profitability.”
Unite’s joint general secretaries, Derek Simpson and Tony Woodley said the dispute was “far from settled”.
“While we have never wanted this dispute, it is a disgraceful day for democracy when a court can overrule such an overwhelming decision by employees taken in a secret ballot,” they said.
“The fact remains that this dispute is not settled.
“BA must accept that there can be no resolution except through negotiation, failing which there will inevitably be a further ballot for industrial action.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8418805.stm
Tag: strikes
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British Airways cabin crew strike illegal, court rules.
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Thousands strike in India’s industrial hub.Comrades?
Strikes, hartals,lock outs-bane of India has been absent for about ten years now.Now a sudden spurt.
Economically the average earnings of a worker favourably compares with developing Nations and working classes of India are in a much better position than before when compared to Agricuturists.
This tendency to go on strike has afflicted not only of lower cadres and in labour oriented industry but service oriented highly paid blue collar industry , like pilots of Airlines as well.
In most cases, subsequentlt we come to know it is because of clash of egos and miscommunication and ineffective HR department.
Also the hands of communists(of which the Unions are a part) can not be ruled out, as voters have trounced them in recent elections and their governments are in disarray following internal strife and corruption.
Story:
Thousands of workers were part of a strike in an important north Indian industrial hub Tuesday, underscoring touchy labor relations in Asia’s third-largest economy.The standoff in the district of Gurgaon, neighboring the Indian capital of New Delhi, was sparked by the death of a protesting worker of an auto-component firm on Sunday.
Police blamed the worker’s death on what they called a clash between groups of striking and non-striking employees.
Trade unions accused company management and police instead.
D.L. Sachdev, secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), insisted Tuesday’s strike had a broader agenda though.
“Workers in Gurgaon are denied the right to form a union and are victimized when they try to do so,” he said.
Sachdev claimed that up to 90,000 workers — mostly technicians and machine operators — have joined the stir led by the AITUC, one of India’s main trade unions.Authorities, however, have declared the strike illegal.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/10/20/india.labor.unrest/index.html
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