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Airbus union warns of more strike in Germany

Bloomberg Airbus SE union IG Metall said it could call for further industrial action in a dispute over the planemaker’s plans to restructure German parts operations. The labour group held a day of strikes and rallies to protest plans to overhaul subsidiaries that make wing and fuselage sections. The move, first announced in April, would involve the creation of new ...

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BA’s ‘CO2-neutral’ flight exposes problems cutting emissions

Bloomberg British Airways operated what was billed as a “carbon neutral” flight this week between London and Glasgow, as it tries to burnish its green credentials in the lead-in to next month’s COP26 climate summit in Scotland. While it was a lower-emissions flight, the attempt by IAG SA’s flagship airline to apply a zero-carbon label exposes the problems that the ...

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John Lewis partnership loss narrows in H1of ’21

Bloomberg John Lewis Partnership Plc’s loss narrowed in the first half as the British retailer’s turnaround efforts started to pay off. The operator of the John Lewis department store and upmarket grocer Waitrose said the $40 million pretax loss came after taking almost 100 million pounds of exceptional costs related to store closures and redundancy payments. This is a significant ...

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