British Airways (BA) announced today that they have entered into legal action against a 12-day strike by cabin crew planned for the Christmas holidays. The strike authorization vote followed a decision by BA to reduce cabin crew for long flights leaving from Heathrow from 15 to 14. The decision was made mid-November after nine months of negotiation, and has been called an ?appalling, unjustified decision? by union members. BA maintains, however, that the strike vote was done illegally and ought to be invalidated. The company claims that the 35,000 member Unite union surveyed a number of employees no longer or never with the BA company in their vote, giving themselves an unfair ?pro? advantage.
See "BA starts legal action on planned union strike", Kaveri Niththyananthan, The Wall Street Journal, December 14, 2009