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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Helen Coffey

British Airways staff ‘spat at and suffered homophobic abuse’ after IT system failure

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British Airways staff were “spat at”, “suffered homophobic abuse” and had to watch “as disabled customers and babies were forced to sleep in the airport” during the airline’s recent system failure, claims a major union.

GMB, which represents numerous BA employees, wrote an open letter to the airline’s CEO, Sean Doyle, laying the blame for the weekend’s disruption on the decision to outsource IT systems to India in 2016.

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