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Old 12th May 2011 | 11:28
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ChicoG
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From the Beeb

BA strike: Airline and union agree to end dispute
Union members are expected to be balloted over the next month

The Unite union has said that British Airways has agreed to restore travel concessions as part of a deal to end long-running industrial action.

An agreement to end the dispute will also see some staff receive top-up payments written into their contracts.

Both issues were at the centre of the bitter dispute which has lasted for almost two years and involved 22 days of strikes.

The agreement will now be put to a ballot of about 10,000 union members.

In a statement Unite general secretary Len McCluskey said: "We always said that this dispute could only be settled by negotiation, not by confrontation or litigation. And so it has proved.

"I am particularly pleased that travel concessions will be restored," he said.
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