TALKS will be held today aimed at averting strikes by airport workers which could cause travel chaos before the end of the school break.
Leaders of the Unite union will meet bosses from airport operators BAA in a bid to resolve a row over pay involving over 6,000 security staff, engineers and firefighters at six airports – Heathrow, Stansted, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
The talks, at the conciliation service Acas, follow a vote in favour of industrial action, in protest at a 1% pay offer.
The Spanish owners of BAA had also offered 0.5%, but this was conditional on changes to the firm’s sickness agreement, said Unite.
