British Airways ground staff accept new pay offers
By Rob Gill / 25 July 2022 / 


British Airways check-in and ground staff at Heathrow have accepted new pay deals, ending the threat of strike action being taken this summer.

Both the GMB and Unite unions have announced that their members have agreed to the latest pay offers from the airline.

The GMB said that three-quarters of affected BA workers at Heathrow had voted in favour of a revised pay deal offering an 8 per cent increase plus bonus. Meanwhile Unite said its members were getting a pay increase worth about 13 per cent, which will be paid in “several stages”.

Nadine Houghton, GMB’s national officer, said: “This improved pay deal came because of their efforts. Now these mainly women workers have won pay improvements for themselves – as well as forcing BA to make this offer to the rest of their staff too.”

Members of both unions had voted to take industrial action in the dispute about pay until finally accepting better offers from British Airways.

Unite's general secretary Sharon Graham said: “This is a great result for our check-in members at British Airways. By standing together, they have forced a corporate giant like BA to do the right thing and restore levels of pay slashed in the pandemic.”

A BA spokesperson added: “We are delighted with this positive news.”