British Airways check-in staff at Heathrow have called off plans to strike after agreeing a 13 per cent pay deal. Members of the Unite trade union had voted to stage a series of walkouts in a row over pay, conditions and the restoration of a wages cut imposed during the pandemic.
However, some 500 workers have accepted a new British Airways offer, after “extensive negotiations” to seal a deal and avoid more chaos for passengers. The agreement will be phased in several stages, while shift pay reductions introduced in 2020 will be reversed from October 2022, reports the Mirror.
Hundreds of GMB members have also accepted the deal. Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “This is a great result for our check-in members at British Airways. By standing together, they have forced a corporate giant like BA to do the right thing and restore levels of pay slashed in the pandemic. This is a further example of how Unite’s relentless focus on winning better jobs, pay and conditions for its members in delivering.”
