CHRISTMAS FLIGHTS STRIKE IS BACK ON.Byline: EXCLUSIVE by STEPHEN MOYES AIRPORT workers will reject a new pay offer today and confirm their Christmas strike. The walkout by firefighters and security guards will shut seven airports on December 23. Thousands of holidaymakers will be stranded unless a last-ditch peace formula is reached. The strikers kicked out a rise in their two-year deal from 6.3 per cent to seven per cent. They were advised to say no by unions Amicus AMICUS Automated Management Information Civil Users System and the TGWU TGWU (in Britain) Transport and General Workers Union TGWU n abbr (BRIT) (= Transport and General Workers' Union) → sindicato de transportistas TGWU n abbr (Brit . The 5,000 rebels - who also include trolley pushers and general ground staff - work at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Southampton, Belfast, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Unions chiefs say the workers deserve more because of extra responsibilities after the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of carnage of September 11. They claim BAA has recovered strongly from the impact of the US terrorist attacks. Travellers missing December 23 flights will be unable to re-book on to already packed services before Christmas Day. Bosses at the airports wrote to the staff begging them not to strike. Roger Cato, chief of BAA Gatwick, warned them: "Each week of strike action will cost you a week's pay. "That's between pounds 250 and pounds 375 for most of you." |
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