The prospect of large-scale passenger and flight disruption for people due to pass through London’s Heathrow Airport this summer has been avoided, with the airport’s management finally agreeing a pay deal with its disgruntled security staff.
The staff – at loggerheads with airport bosses over working conditions and pay, through their representative the UNITE trade union in the UK – were looking like holding strike action virtually every weekend through the summer and right up to the end of August.
However, management has agreed to a proposed backdated 10% pay increase, and a further pay rise of 1.5% from October – which UNITE has described as a “hard won victory”.
