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| Followup: BA backs down over cross ban after storm of criticism |
| 2006-11-25 |
| British Airways backed down over its ban on workers wearing the cross after a hurricane of criticism. Airline chief Willie Walsh ordered a rethink of the rule that barred check-in worker Nadia Eweida from wearing a tiny cross at work. The airline had faced four days of angry condemnation from an overwhelming alliance of Cabinet ministers, 100 MPs, 20 Church of England bishops and, finally, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr Rowan Williams called its stance 'deeply offensive' and threatened to sell the Church of England's £6.6million holding of BA shares. Just five hours later, the airline capitulated. Chief executive Mr Walsh, the driving force behind BA's determination to stop Miss Eweida wearing the cross, said it will look at ways its rules could be adapted 'to allow symbols of faith to be worn openly’. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #2 and threatened to sell the Church of England's £6.6million holding of BA shares. Thus the reason they capitulated. |
| Posted by: Charles 2006-11-25 18:06 |
| #1 I wrote six emails to BA about this over the last month, most recently this Friday when their reply said the policy was "under review". I won't hold my breath waiting for them to account for all of their previous replies in which they denied, denied, denied there was a problem. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2006-11-25 10:18 |