Bournemouth Airport (BOH/EGHH) is dealing with a possible shutdown subsequent month as members of the Unite union employed on the airport are balloted on strike motion.
Virtually 80 members of workers are members of Unite, together with refuellers, baggage handlers, safety workers, and check-in workers, all of whom have rejected a pay supply, which might have seen the bottom paid rise to £12.22 per hour.
Unite says that the pay supply ranged from 4.5% for the lowest-paid employees to three% for the highest-paid.
As virtually all elements of floor dealing with is included in Unite’s membership, any strike motion would successfully shut the airport in the course of the industrial motion.
Unite normal secretary Sharon Graham mentioned: “Bournemouth Airport is placing its personal pursuits over these of the employees. We admire it’s investing in its future, however members should not be left behind within the pursuit of that.
“Our hardworking members deserve a good pay rise and Unite will again them each step of the best way.”
The poll is working till the twentieth August and any ensuing industrial motion might begin as quickly as the primary week of September, affecting the ultimate week of the summer time holidays.
Bournemouth Airport is among the UK’s rising regional airports with easyJet, Jet2, Ryanair and TUI all working flights from there. The airport is predicted to deal with virtually 1,000,000 passengers this yr, reaching passenger numbers it hasn’t seen since 2006.
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