Brown: planned BA strike ‘deplorable’

The planned strike by British Airways cabin crew is ‘unjustified’ and ‘deplorable’ and should be called off, Gordon Brown said, in the government’s strongest condemnation of the walkout so far

• Union offer to suspend planned BA strike
• BA cabin crew reveal strike dates

CMA CGM seeks outside investors

The world’s third-largest container shipping line is seeking capital from outside investors to tackle a liquidity crisis

Union offer to halt BA strike

Britain's biggest trade union last night offered to suspend a British Airways strike that will hit 30,000 passengers a day from Saturday, saying it would look at...

Premier walks tightrope over BA strikes

Gordon Brown's attempts to distance himself from planned strikes by British Airways cabin crew have been undermined by a single, politically perilous fact: one of his...

Brown's rebuke to BA strikers sets up clash with Labour's biggest sponsor

Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, has put himself on collision course with the ruling Labour party's biggest financial backer after saying planned strikes at...

Militant legacy

Len McCluskey , the Unite assistant general secretary leading the fight with British Airways, will be an important political figure if he wins this autumn's contest to...

BA cabin crew reveal strike dates

British Airways faces its first strike in more than a decade after representatives of its 12,000 cabin crew announced a series of walkouts later this month

BA ground staff threaten to strike

British Airways, already threatened with strikes by cabin crew in a long-running row over cost-cutting, is facing a second potential dispute with ground staff over changes to working practices