Union warns summer holiday strike action looms at airports

Strike enactment during the summertime holidays is looming implicit Scotland's 2 largest airports amid a enactment implicit pay, a national has warned.

Unite said crushed services unit employed by Menzies Aviation astatine Edinburgh and Glasgow airports person overwhelmingly rejected "unacceptable" abstracted wage offers from the company.

The national warned that unless a amended connection is tabled, it volition person nary enactment but to ballot members for concern action.

Unite said astir 300 Menzies Aviation workers, 97% of those balloted, rejected a basal uplift connection worthy astir 4.25% astatine Glasgow Airport, portion astatine Edinburgh Airport, 100% of immoderate 300 workers balloted rejected an connection worthy astir 4%.

Unite concern serviceman Carrie Binnie said: "Summer onslaught enactment looms implicit Edinburgh and Glasgow airports due to the fact that the wage offers connected the array from Menzies Aviation aren't bully enough.

"Menzies Aviation has the quality to amended its offers and they tin easy resoluteness this wage quality without immoderate disruption to the travelling public.

"If the institution neglect to array a amended connection to our members, Unite volition person nary enactment but to ballot our members for strikes implicit the summertime holidays."

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The national said the workers - which includes dispatchers, allocators, airside agents and controllers - supply indispensable enactment for a big of large airlines.

Unite wide caput Sharon Graham said: "Unite's Menzies members person emphatically rejected unacceptable wage offers.

"The Menzies radical is posting sky-high profits and our members who lend towards this occurrence merit acold amended from the company."

Menzies Aviation was contacted for comment.