Birmingham Airport axe trolley staff
09.05.09
Long-serving trolley staff at Birmingham Airport face the chop – because of new £1 charges for their services, the Post reports. Staff who help travellers with their baggage are being lined up for redundancy after the £1 fees introduced at the airport last month led to a decline in usage by passengers.
Regional Unite official John Partridge told the newspaper: ‘It is proposed that the number of trolley pushers should go down from 15 to 4. They are carrying out the selection criteria on May 15 and will be informing people themselves on May 18 or 19.'
‘We can understand that there is not going to be the same usage for the trolleys that there would have been previously, when they were free to use, but I am disappointed that it has led to this decision over redundancies.'
‘We are currently talking to the company about how we can minimise the effect as much as possible. The longest serving worker here has ten years service, and there are others between seven and ten years.’
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