Saturday 31 March 2018

BA RACISTS

BA passenger accused of stealing iPhone on flight because he was ‘only black man on plane’ Tom HerbertSaturday 31 Mar 2018 3:14 pm Share this article with Facebook Share this article with Twitter Share this article with Google Plus Share this article through email Jonathan (right) was accused of stealing an iPhone on a BA flight to Barcelona (Picture: Mirrorpix) A man says he was accused of stealing an iPhone on a BA flight because he was the ‘only black man on the plane’. Jonathan Vardon claims he was forced to turn out his pockets and his underwear after he was singled out by other passengers over the colour of his skin. Three pensioners arrested over massive cannabis haul worth £1,300,000 The 26-year-old was also met and searched by armed Spanish police when he arrived in Barcelona – even though he had already been searched on the plane. He tweeted: ‘What a surreal experience! I was wrongly accused of theft on a @British_Airways flight from London to Barcelona. ‘My friends and I were searched by armed police and there was no apology. I was the only black person on the flight #racists.’ Apple worker Jonathan says another passenger wrongly accused him of taking the phone after it went missing on a flight from Gatwick. But the fellow traveller had actually left the phone in the plane toilet – and Jonathan said he was not given an apology later. Oxford University comes under fire for 'sexist' reunion invitation Jonathan, of London, told the Mirror: ‘It felt like other passengers singled me out because I was the only black man on the plane. It was mortifying.’ His partner Drew Clauson slammed the ‘outrageous’ incident before pointing out that several people could have used the toilet but instead they picked out Jonathan. Jonathan was made to turn out his pockets and nothing was found on him. Jonathan slammed the incident as ‘degrading’ (Picture: Facebook) But despite that seven police with machine guns searched him when the plane landed in Spain. He was released after nothing was found. A spokesperson for BA told Metro.co.uk: ‘The allegation of theft was made by one of our customers and at their request we reported it to the police so that it could be dealt with in the correct manner.’

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Saturday 24 March 2018

BA SUED BY HONG KONG CREW

British Airways hits out at Hong Kong union leader as decade-old pay dispute resurfaces

Carol Ng Man-yee is attempting to claim HK$150,000 for overtime pay and meal allowances, an action first raised in 2007, but airline says she is abusing judicial process
PUBLISHED : Friday, 23 March, 2018, 5:32pm
UPDATED : Friday, 23 March, 2018, 11:18pm
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British Airways has accused a leader of Hong Kong’s largest cabin crew union of abusing judicial process by reopening a decade-old pay dispute that the company claimed she intended to use a “bargaining chip” to further her own cause.
British Airways PLC made the accusation in a letter submitted to the Labour Tribunal, which agreed last December to hear Carol Ng Man-yee’s claim of HK$150,000 for overtime pay and meal allowances, first filed in 2007, that could pave the way for 40 other similar cases worth HK$6.4 million.
The airline is now seeking to strike out Ng’s claim on grounds of unreasonable delay, or to bring the case to High Court if that fails.
Ng, the general secretary of the BA Hong Kong International Cabin Crew Association, said outside court that the delay was the company’s fault, and she only reopened her case after the management turned down a proposed package last summer following three years of settlement negotiations.


The package, she revealed, included a lowered monetary claim attached with conditions such as fixing holiday pay and recognising BA Hong Kong International Cabin Crew Association as the airline’s official union in the city, so that it could join pay negotiations in Britain.
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Ng said crew members had not seen a pay rise since 1998, despite the city’s 29 per cent inflation over the years.
But the company, she said, had refused to recognise the union as their lawyers said Hong Kong laws do not provide the right to collective bargaining.
“They would rather sacrifice labour relations,” Ng said. “I don’t understand why BA had to make things so complicated. They’re the one causing the unreasonable delay.”

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Ng is the chairwoman of Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions and an executive committee member of the Hong Kong Cabin Crew Federation – an umbrella group of British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Dragonair cabin crew unions – comprising of 10,000 cabin crew members.
BA had complained in the letter to the tribunal that Ng’s act of commencing the proceedings and consciously deciding to sit on it for almost nine years was akin to an abuse of process of the tribunal.


“She chose to keep the matter in abeyance to use, we would submit, as a bargaining chip to further her own cause as chairperson of the BA Hong Kong International Cabin Crew Association … to pull out when it suits her position in other matters,” the letter said. “The delay on the part of the claimant to advance the proceeding had been unreasonably long. We submit that a fair trial would be impossible.”
But company representative, cabin crew manager Jolene Ho Pik-kwan, could not say if that was an exhaustive list of grounds to back their application.
Presiding officer David Chum Yau-fong has therefore granted the company three more weeks to come up with full reasons before the application is heard on May 17.
Ho declined to respond to questions outside court.
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