British Airways staff have joined rail workers by voting to take strike action this summer.
After the chaos at airports witnessed over the Jubilee weekend the planned walkout will test the patience of travellers.
But they should direct their anger at BA’s bosses, not the trade unions. The airline has treated its staff appallingly by using the cover of Covid to impose worse pay and conditions.
Since flights returned to normal the company has increased wages but for managers, not rank-and-file staff.
Industrial action is always the last resort for the unions, not least because it cost members money for every day they are on strike.
They have been driven to this situation because bosses have refused to recognise that low-paid staff are struggling to make ends meet because of the cost-of-living crisis.
It does not help that the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has failed to lift a finger to try to resolve the growing number of disputes in the sector he is meant to oversee.
It is clear the Government is refusing to act because it would prefer to fight with unions rather than address their legitimate concerns.
Drug works
It took years of campaigning for the NHS to accept the benefits of using medicinal cannabis.
Four years ago it became legal to prescribe the drug for certain conditions.
But, as the Mirror reveals, NHS England has now halted the funding of unlicensed medicines.
Patients with life-threatening illnesses are having to travel abroad to receive treatment.
If cannabis-based medicines are legal and have been proven to work then they should be made available.
Floe way
Floella Benjamin has revealed she resisted the charms of David Bowie.
They got on Hunky Dory as friends but there was no Humpty Dumpty.
