(Reuters) -London’s Stansted Airport workers called off a potential strike that could have disrupted one of Britain’s busiest airports after its union secured an improved pay offer, Unite said on Thursday.
The lowest paid workers will receive an 11% wage increase over the year, while other grade workers will get a 10% rise, comprising an 8% increase from April and a 2% hike from this month.
The offers include a 250-pound ($280.20) one-off payment.
More than 1,000 Stansted workers including security officers, cleaners, firefighters and maintenance staff had voted for a strike action after rejecting a pay offer of 7.5%, plus the 250 pounds, in August.
“We are pleased that colleagues recently voted to accept our revised pay offer, which avoids any potential disruption to passengers as a result of industrial action,” a Stansted Airport spokesperson said in an emailed statement.
Workers in a range of sectors across Britain have taken or threatened industrial action in disputes over pay this summer at a time surging inflation and a deepening cost-of-living crisis batters the British economy.
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(Reporting by Radhika Anilkumar and Aby Jose Koilparambil in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D’Silva and Sriraj Kalluvila)
