London, UK. 15th June, 2016. Younger members of the union are facing the real threat of being replaced by the foriegn workers who would be allowed a two tier visa from the home office . Credit: Philip Robins/Alamy Live News
Theresa May is talking tough in successive speeches but dragging her feet on action to stop abuse of tier 2 visas, this is gross hypocrisy by Mrs May says GMB GMB has written to the Home Office several times without response, stating that members employed in the IT department at British Airways are to be replaced with workers recruited in India and flown into the UK on tier 2 visas. GMB is currently in dispute with British Airways about plans to outsource 800 UK IT jobs to the Indian firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and a number of other companies. A number of British Airways IT functions are already run by TCS and GMB have previously called on the Home Affairs Select Committee to investigate TCS's use of the UK visa system to replace UK workers. The number of tier 2 visas has increased by almost a third from 114,127 in 2009 to 151,659 in 2014. GMB workers from BA will stage a picket and There are around 800 skilled IT jobs at risk, with BA colleagues based at various locations in the UK, at BA Headquarters at Waterside in Harmondsworth, West London, BA's IT Department in Newcastle, and at other locations in Manchester, Cardiff and Scotland.
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