No fewer than 4,0000 BA staff have been forced out of their jobs today. Report says.
Many of those who are keeping their jobs face pay cuts.
British Airways spoke person said the financial impact of COVID-19 pandemic had been enormous and that 6,000 workers had volunteered to take redundancy.
According to Howard Beckett, Unite's assistant general secretary, "This is a very bleak day for the incredible BA workforce and will go down in the history of the airline as the day that it put the interests of the boardroom ahead of its passengers and workforce".
"These workers have given years of dedicated service to this company, some as many as 40 years, and indeed to our country, as many were involved in the repatriation of British citizens at the outset of this pandemic".
Today they will be dismissed by email by an employer whose spiteful mistreatment of them is nothing other than despicable."
He further said that "This company has displayed scant regard for either employment law or basic common decency. We cannot trust them to do the right thing by this workforce, so we will be doing everything in our power to prevent this continued industrial thuggery".
"4,000 loyal workers are being forced out of the jobs that they love today by naked, company greed." He said.
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