British Airways The key trends for the British Airways Plc Group are shown below. On the merger with Iberia, the accounting reference date was changed from 31 March to 31 December; figures below are therefore for the years to 31 March up to 2010, for the nine months to 31 December 2010, and for the years to 31 December thereafter: Staff working for British Airways are represented by a number of trade unions, pilots are represented by British Air Line Pilots' Association, cabin crew by British Airlines Stewards and Stewardesses Association (a branch of Unite the Union), while other branches of Unite
John William Gordon (trade unionist) John William Gordon (trade unionist) John William Gordon (born 1879) was an Irish trade union official and political activist. Born in Dublin to a Catholic family, Gordon came to Britain to work on the Great Western Railway, and joined the National Union of Railwaymen. He became correspondence secretary of the union's Paddington No.1 branch in 1907, then branch secretary in 1912. He studied in the evenings at the Regent Street Polytechnic, then at the London School of Economics, and his skill with figures enabled him to work full-time for the union as its cashier, and he was later promoted to