Heathrow security staff escalate summer strikes

Heathrow Airport security staff are to escalate summer strike action – including walkouts as the school holidays start.Strikes are planned nearly every weekend from mid-June to the end of August in long-running dispute over pay and conditions.Around 1,400 workers at Heathrow Terminal 3 are joining the industrial action for the first time in the coming […]

1,400 Heathrow security staff to strike in May

Around 1,400 Heathrow Airport security staff will strike for eight days in May. The union Unite said officers will withdraw their labour over three periods – 4 to 6 May, 9 to 10 May and 25 to 27 May in a dispute over pay. The first set of walk-outs will affect people travelling to the […]

Heathrow security officers strike from March 31

Security officers at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 are to take industrial action for 10 days from March 31 in a pay dispute. It is thought that 1,400 members of the uniuon Unite will walk out just as the schools break up for the Easter holidays. Workers at the terminal, which handles intenrnational flights to countries […]

Children’s passport scanners on trial at airport

Use of electronic passport scanners for children under 18 have been under trial on under 18s at Heathrow Airport. Children aged 10 and 11 used the technology at Terminal 5 during the recent half-term week to test their efficiency. Children over the age of 12 can use the scanners. UK SECURITY NEWSIt came at a […]