Wizz Air passengers at Luton airport will face ‘serious disruption’ if baggage handlers and check-in staff employed by GH London Ground Handling Services vote to strike over pay. Unite, the UK’s leading union, said around 100 of its members are being balloted over GH London’s failure to...

Unite the union has issued an angry response to the announcement from Glasgow Airport that they plan to outsource their security and fire brigade services. Glasgow Airport launched a consultation yesterday on the transfer of nearly 300 workers to ICTS (UK) who operate airport security functions ...

Trade union Unite has called on Heathrow Airport bosses to get back around the table after workers again “massively rejected” a revised pay offer in a consultative ballot and the threat of strike action looms once more. The dispute involves security guards, firefighters, engineers, passenger...

Unite the Union has announced that its members employed as baggage handlers at Heathrow have agreed a deal with the airport that will see industrial action averted. The multi-year deal followed eight months of negotiations between Babcock Airports Ltd and their employees, through the conciliatio...

UK trade union Unite says strike action proposed for 23-24 August at Heathrow Airport has been suspended after a new pay offer has been made to workers. The union adds that the ballot on the revised pay offer made by Heathrow Airport Ltd (HAL) to over 4,000 security, airside operations and passe...

Strikes by security workers at London Gatwick Airport have been suspended after an improved pay offer was made. The 130 members of the Unite trade union, who are employed by ICTS (UK) to scan passengers’ luggage for explosive materials and other dangerous and prohibited materials, were due to ...

Heathrow Airport and the United union are holding last-ditch talks to prevent strike action - which if it takes place is set to cause chaos tomorrow (6 August) at the UK hub. Monday's strike was called off late on Sunday and some airlines, such as British Airways, reinstated flights, although 16...

Trade union Unite has announced that over 90 firefighters and fire and rescue staff will join other workers at Heathrow Airport in strike action over a pay dispute. Fire and rescue workers backed the industrial action by 97.6 per cent in a vote with a 90.2 per cent turnout, and will now join 4,0...

Heathrow Airport has released a statement regarding the possibility of industrial action by airport staff over the summer holiday period. Unite the union announced strikes it said “could potentially shut down the airport” scheduled for July 26 and 27, and August 5, 6, 23 and 24, after worker...

Unite the union announced that its Aberdeen Airport membership rejected the most recent pay offer from airport management and voted to go ahead with more strikes this week. 62.8 per cent of union members (turnout was 96 per cent) voted to reject the latest pay offer, with 71.5 per cent voting to...

Security guards employed by London Luton Airport are set to take strike action through most of June and July in a dispute over ‘heavy-handed’ changes to working time. The workers will begin their fourth period of strike action today (Wednesday 5 June) from 04:30h through to Tuesday 23 July a...

Hundreds of baggage handlers and check-in staff employed by GH London (formally Azzurra) at Heathrow Airport have secured a 9.1 per cent pay increase after workers overwhelmingly backed strike action in a dispute over low pay. In April this year over 300 workers at Heathrow’s Terminals 2 and 4 ov...

A campaign to persuade Heathrow Airport to commission an independent inquiry to improve airport safety will be launched tomorrow (Friday May 10) following the death of Unite member John Coles in February 2018 after an accident at the UK hub. The campaign into improving airside safety at the airp...

Security guards employed by London Luton Airport will take 13 days of strike action starting today (1 May) in a dispute over "heavy-handed" changes to working time.  Unite, the trade union representing workers, said London Luton Airport is attempting to push through a new shift pattern affecting ...

Unite the union said yesterday (23 April) that its membership at Aberdeen Airport have voted for strike action over a pay claim for 2019, and following proposals to close the final salary pension scheme. Members supported strike action by 88.3 per cent on a 79.5 per cent turnout. The airport is ...