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BA vows to fight unions.


UNIONS legal action against British Airways' plans to impose new pay and conditions on 14,000 cabin crew cabin crew cabin n (Aviat) → équipage m  will be resisted, the company announced last night.

Unite announced it was applying for a High Court injunction injunction, in law, order of a court directing a party to perform a certain act or to refrain from an act or acts. The injunction, which developed as the main remedy in equity, is used especially where money damages would not satisfy a plaintiff's claim, or to  "against the imposition The printing of pages on a single sheet of paper in a particular order so that they come out in the correct sequence when cut and folded.  of the new contracts" for the cabin crew, which it says are due to be brought in on November 16.

But a BA spokesman, who revealed the company had received an injunction application from Unite, said: "The changes do not alter contractual terms A contractual term is "[a]ny provision forming part of a contract"[1] Each term gives rise to a contractual obligation, breach of which will can give rise to litigation.  and conditions for individual crew members and we will resiS the injunction application.
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Publication:Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
Date:Oct 31, 2009
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