Workers at Gatwick airport are to be balloted on an improved pay offer following eleventh hour negotiations. Members of Unite employed as security guards, engineers, firefighters and admin…Read more…
‘Festive pay boost’
Hundreds of cleaners at Manchester Airport have called off industrial action having secured an extra 50p an hour or around an extra £850 a year, plus double time for working over Christmas and New…Read more…
Wake up call
Unite is urging Heathrow bosses to recognise the sizeable discontent that remains among security staff, engineers and firefighters at the UK’s largest airport over holiday pay and imposed cuts to…Read more…
‘Bucks not burgers’ strike
Widespread disruption is expected at Gatwick airport later this month after over 200 workers employed on the Norwegian airline baggage handling contract voted overwhelmingly for strike action in a…Read more…
‘Bucks, not burgers’
Unite will begin balloting nearly 200 members, employed on the Norwegian airline baggage handling contract at Gatwick airport for strike action in a pay dispute today (September 29). The…Read more…
100 per cent in
Low paid cleaners at Manchester Airport employed by Mitie Cleaning and Environmental services have voted solidly in favour of strike action in their campaign for fair pay following a two year pay…Read more…
Cheated out of holiday pay
About 4,000 workers at Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL), members of Unite have overwhelmingly rejected the company’s holiday pay offer and imposed cuts to terms and conditions in a consultative ballot….Read more…
‘Safety first’ call
Unite, today (September 18) called on the whole of the airline industry to follow the lead of easyJet and take a ‘safety first’ approach in fitting air filtration units on board aircraft…Read more…
Burger off!
Unite has warned today (September 6) that its members employed on the Norwegian airline baggage handling contract, will not accept ‘burgers instead of bucks’ in a pay dispute. The workers are…Read more…
‘Barmaids in the sky’
Airline cabin crew are being subjected to record levels of abuse from intoxicated passengers, according to shocking new research conducted by Unite. A survey of 4,000 cabin crew, Unite…Read more…
Pilot strike to take off
Unite, which represents pilots working for the Dublin-based airline CityJet, today notified the company of a series of 13 full-day work stoppages starting next Thursday (November 24). The…Read more…
Pilot strike looms
Unite today (November 14) announced that pilots at the Dublin-based airline CityJet are set to strike before Christmas. The vast majority — 82 per cent of pilots — represented by the…Read more…
Strike take off
Business flyers using London’s City airport face severe disruption when award winning cabin crew working for CityJet strike for five days in a dispute over proposed pay cuts of up to 50 per cent….Read more…
Pensions result
The threat to summer holiday flights from Southampton airport has been lifted, after members of Unite agreed to accept improved pension arrangements following talks with the airports’ owner, AGS. …Read more…
Holiday flights under threat
Summer holiday flights from Southampton airport would be disrupted, if firefighters take strike action over adverse pensions’ changes proposed by the airports’ owner, AGS. The firefighters,…Read more…
Fatigue factor
Over a thousand Thomas Cook airlines cabin crew began voting in a ballot for industrial action on Friday (May 6) in a dispute over health and safety concerns and ‘dangerous’ changes to rest breaks…Read more…