LONDON—Sacked members of the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) maintain their picket line and protest against airline catering company Gate Gourmet at Heathrow airport. The company fired 800 workers August 10 when some walked off the job to hold a union meeting. British Airways workers responded with a one-day sympathy strike. Since then, the TGWU and the company reached an agreement offering the fired workers voluntary redundancy (layoff) and compensation pay.

Meanwhile, union-busting Gate Gourmet boss David Siegel continues his threat to dismiss “hard-line militants.”

The TGWU is booking coaches for the catering workers to attend the annual Trades Union Congress conference in Brighton September 12. Union stewards recently traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, to receive a solidarity donation.

—BY CELIA PUGH

 
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