British Airways cabin crew strikers prepared for long haul

Mixed fleet staff have fought for better pay for six months but, despite plans for further action, the airline won’t settleThe sweep of silver hair, fierce stare and rousing speech by Bolsover MP Dennis Skinner was vintage 1980s strike-era. “I’m as proud of you as I was of the miners,” he told striking British Airways cabin crew demonstrating outside parliament this week.Most were born long after Margaret Thatcher closed down the pits, but the comparison was rapturously w