North Air (UNITE) Strike Calendar
Strike Type: Airports
Latest North Air Industrial Action Updates (3)
Unite has secured pay deals for North Air tanker drivers based across Scottish airports, the nation’s leading aviation union confirmed today (7 January). Around 100 tanker drivers and airfield operators who provide refuelling services for airlines who fly into and out of Aberdeen, Edinburgh Glasgow, Inverness, Kirkwall (Orkney), Sumburgh (Shetland) and Stornoway are all benefiting from a basic minimum wage increase of 4.5 per cent. A 10 per cent increase to the shift allowance will also be applied along with a boost to the company’s driver training and training champion bonus schemes. This could see an increase by up to 150 per cent from £200 to £500 and from £400 to £1,000 in the company bonus schemes.
A new pay offer was tabled by North Air on Friday and was overwhelmingly backed by Unite's members at the close of ballot yesterday. The pay offer involves a 4.5 per cent basic increase backdated to August and also includes several significant improvements to the overall pay package. There is a 10 per cent increase to the shift allowance and an increase in Saturday overtime rate which will be doubled from time and a third (1.33) to time and two-thirds (1.66).
The pay dispute relates to a rejected 4.5 per cent pay offer by the company, following years of below inflation pay increases. Unite members overwhelmingly backed strike action in a drive to secure a better pay offer from North Air.
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