Gatwick workers to strike

Security workers at Gatwick Airport are to strike for 48 hours this summer in a dispute over pay.

Luggage scanners will walk out at 6am on 10 August in a move that the union Unite warned would ’cause travel disruption’.

The union said most of the 130 workers, employed by ICTS, are paid less than £9 an hour, which it described as “poverty pay”.

Gatwick said it had been told by ICTS that ‘flights will not be impacted’.

Jamie Major, Unite regional officer, said: “It is high time the airport got its priorities right and starts investing in its hard-working staff, instead of paying millions to its shareholders.”

(Travel Mole)