Overview
- Mr Justice Soole dismissed BAE Systems’ injunction application and said written reasons will follow.
- Unite’s planned action at the Lancashire sites is scheduled to continue until 25 November after members rejected a 2025 pay offer.
- BAE argued the union told quality professionals to stop training managers for aircraft testing, a claim Unite denied as it says the training was only a request.
- BAE is considering an appeal, while Unite is calling for renewed pay talks in the company’s Air division.
- PA reported fewer than 70 employees are involved out of about 12,000 at the sites, with production lines continuing to operate.