News / Security dispute settled
PROSPECT union members providing security at Scottish airports including Sumburgh have accepted a management offer to end an industrial dispute which led to a 48-hour strike at Easter.
Those working for HIAL’s security company AMSL have voted to accept an offer to harmonise terms and conditions in the next 20 months following what Prospect described as a “six year battle for equality”.
Members voted 95 per cent in favour of the offer on a 74 per cent turnout.
Prospect national secretary Alan Denney said he was “delighted that this dispute has finally been settled and that our members will in future be on an equal footing with their colleagues in the wider HIAL group”.
“It is right that the vital task of keeping the public safe when they fly is properly recognised,” Denney said.
“I would like to thank members for their patience over six long years as well as the wider public for their support and understanding during the recent industrial action.”
A HIAL spokesman said: “We are pleased that Prospect members have accepted the package of improvements proposed by HIAL. Notwithstanding that disruption was minimal, today’s outcome is good news for staff and for passengers and means we can now focus on making this summer our busiest ever.”
Prospect said there were various inequalities that cropped up over the past six years since HIAL brought security in house – relating to basic pay, shift pay, sick pay, overtime, weekend premium payments and holidays.
It said one of the starkest examples was sick pay, where AMSL members received only five days a year in contracts to six months’ full pay for staff who manage them, and other colleagues in the wider group.
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