BBC NEWS | Business | Union warns of more BA disruption

BBC NEWS | Business | Union warns of more BA disruption: "The Transport & General Workers' Union has warned of further disruption to British Airways flights unless the 670 Gate Gourmet workers are reinstated.
Speaking to the BBC's Today programme, T&G boss Tony Woodley said BA could be 'severely, severely affected' unless it helped to resolve the situation.
Mr Woodley urged BA to step in and help the sacked Gate Gourmet workers get their jobs back at Heathrow Airport.
Meanwhile, Gate said administration was now a 'real possibility' for the firm.
Gate says it needs to secure an improved contract offer from BA - its biggest UK client - to secure the future of its British operations, and has set the airline a 5pm Tuesday deadline.
The 670 mainly Asian Gate catering staff were sacked two weeks ago in a dispute over working practices.
It prompted a two-day sympathy strike by BA ground staff at Heathrow, causing cancelled flights and chaos for thousands of passengers.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC), the UK's umbrella union organisation, has now also entered the dispute for the first time, contacting both the T&G and Gate Gourmet in the hope of helping to broker an agreement.
'Public support'
Speaking on Monday morning, Mr Woodley said US-owned Gate should not be allowed to get away with removing the workers.
At the moment, Gate Gourmet is not a viable commercial organisation and so administration has to be a real probability

Gate Gourmet director Andy Cook


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'I believe the politics of this are so huge, that the public opinion is so far in favour of the re-instatement of my unfairly sacked workers, the repercussions on British Airways and indeed people using British Airways, particularly their Indian travellers a"