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SIXTY-THREE thousand Unite members are currently out on strike, and the union’s leader Sharon Graham was praised for having won over £50 million in pay awards for workers in under a year as general secretary.
This month the union secured a vastly improved pay offer from British Airways — which had been seeking to deny baggage handlers restoration of the 10 per cent pay cut imposed on them during the pandemic — following an overwhelming vote to strike, though action had not begun.
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