Brown condemns BA strike

"I don't blame our PM for trying to help bring together parties to resolve the dispute," he said in a statement.

"But it is rather unfortunate that politicians of all parties always want to kick the unions and kick the employees, when in actual fact it's my members who've been kicked here."

(Additional reporting by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

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