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STRIKES by ground handlers at Heathrow airport will go ahead on Friday after workers rejected a new pay offer, Unite has announced.
Four hundred members employed by private contractor Menzies were still due to walk out for 72 hours from 4am, the union confirmed today.
Unite added that a further three-day strike from the early hours of December 29 will also now take place.
General secretary Sharon Graham said: “This is a classic case of an employer that can fully afford to pay workers a fair pay increase but has chosen not to.
“Menzies needs to stop making excuses and make a pay offer that meets our members’ expectations.”
Workers rejected the wage deal — 4 per cent backdated to May and then a further 6.5 per cent from next month — and repeated calls for an above-inflation increase of 13 per cent for 2022.
Menzies’s Miguel Gomez Sjunnesson said he is “extremely disappointed that the union has rejected the competitive offer” but stressed the firm hopes to find a resolution soon.
An airport spokesperson claimed the “vast majority of passengers will not be affected” by the industrial action.
