BALPA want Government to protect BMI jobs
18.09.11
The union representing pilots at BMI has written to Transport Secretary Philip Hammond asking him to protect its members’ jobs should its owner Lufthansa sell the airline. The British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA), the pilots union, said in a statement today that Mr Hammond should meet with Lufthansa and tell the airline that any deal should protect UK jobs.
Lufthansa board member Stefan Lauer said earlier this month that the airline hired a bank to ‘support in the search for a partner’ for unprofitable BMI. Jim McAuslan, general secretary of BALPA, in the statement: ‘Too often in the UK, compared to elsewhere in Europe, the human factor is ignored. This is serious. Unemployment is on the increase and British jobs are at risk.’
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