Liverpool Airport strike starts
20.08.09
About 150 ground staff, including baggage handlers and check-in workers, walked out on strike at Liverpool Airport at 04:00 this morning in a row over 23 job losses. The strike action is indefinite, until the dispute is resolved.
Negotiations between the GMB union and employers Servisair failed to break the deadlock yesterday. The union has been seeking assurances that no worker would face compulsory redundancy under the cost-cutting plans.
Servisair workers at the airport serve travellers on flights with Ryanair, KLM, Wizzair, Flybe and Thomson. The airport said it had been assured that it would be ‘business as usual’. Contingency plans were in place to make sure passengers were not inconvenienced, an airport spokesman said.
Ryanair said that Servisair have a contingency plan in place to transfer passenger's baggage to / from the airport check-in area to its aircraft at Liverpool Airport. However, it has asked that all passengers arrive early. Its airport check-in and bag drop desks open 2 hours prior to the scheduled flight departure time.
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