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Stansted airport workers to vote on strike action

Air
Rob Gill
26 August 2022

Workers at Stansted airport are to be balloted on strike action after rejecting a 7.5% pay offer.

Manchester and Stansted airports are almost back to 2019 passenger volumes

Stansted served 28.5 million passengers last year

The Unite union said that more than 1,000 workers at Stansted, including security officers, cleaners, firefighters, maintenance staff and airport ambassadors, will vote on industrial action. The strike ballot is due to close on 19 September.

Unite said the pay offer from Stansted, which is owned by Manchester Airports Group (MAG), was “overwhelmingly rejected” by workers in an earlier vote, even though the union had “strongly recommended” that the deal be accepted by members last month.