Airbus boss calls for further dialogue following strike vote

AIRBUS workers have voted to strike in a dispute over pay. More than 3,000 aircraft fitters and engineers at Filton and Broughton in Flintshire, were balloted by the union Unite.

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The highly skilled workers play a critical role in the production of aircraft wings for the hugely successful A320 family, A330, A350 and A400M military transport aircraft core programmes in Airbus’s global operations.

But the Unite union has been in dispute with the aerospace giant over the latest pay offer. This saw a ballot called over potential industrial action.