Edinburgh Airport staff who aid passengers with reduced mobility have called off a strike after a new pay deal was agreed.<\/p>\n
OCS Group workers at Edinburgh Airport had threatened to walk out across the month of September after rejecting an initial offer of \u00a312.60 per hour.<\/p>\n
The action was suspended at the start of the month after the company tabled a new agreement, which has now been accepted by members of the Unite union.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the union said they had secured a “significant improvement” in terms.<\/p>\n
OCS staff are responsible for helping passengers with mobility issues to get on and off flights.<\/p>\n
They also assist in the operation of ambulift vehicles, which load those in wheelchairs or other mobility aids onto aircraft.<\/p>\n
More than 100 passenger assistants employed by the firm backed strike action in a ballot last month.<\/p>\n
They described the offer made by OCS as “poverty pay” and scheduled a series of 48-hour stoppages over a month-long period.<\/p>\n
However, those were withdrawn after new terms \u2013 which included a 6.1% increase to the hourly rate, backdated to 1 January, 2025 \u2013 were tabled.<\/p>\n
The offer also included a further 5% pay increase from 1 January next year alongside improvements to the company’s sick pay scheme and overtime rate.<\/p>\n
Unite said that offer had now been accepted and future threats of strike action withdrawn.<\/p>\n
Unite industrial officer, Carrie Binnie, said: “The accepted offer represents a significant improvement to terms and conditions on where the negotiations began with OCS.<\/p>\n
“We are pleased to have delivered a good pay deal which provides a timely boost to our members.”<\/p>\n
OCS Group has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Airport staff who aid passengers with reduced mobility have called off a strike after a new pay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-436540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115232051378776365","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}