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West London Trade Union Club, 33-35 High St, Acton
Organised by Ealing Trades Union Council
Organised by Ealing Trades Union Council
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Beresford Rd, Southall. Rally 15:00 at Dominion Centre, The Green, Southall
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On 5 January British Airways sacked a second shop steward for involvement in the Heathrow Airport baggage handlers’ strike of 11-12 August in support of the Gate Gourmet catering workers, producing food for BA's flights, who were locked out on 10 August.
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Airline catering firm Gate Gourmet has said that it will after all reinstate some of the 700 Heathrow workers it locked out on 10 August.
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At the Gate Gourmet picket at Heathrow last week there was still confusion about what was happening to implement the deal outstanding since September. No one has had it confirmed that they will receive compulsory or voluntary redundancy payments, let alone if they are to be reinstated.
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British Airways finally signed a new catering contract with Gate Gourmet on 20 October, and over the days since then there has been some movement on the deal supposedly made by Gate Gourmet with the TGWU on 26 September to end the lock-out of GG workers at Heathrow. But no worker has yet been reinstated, and it is still not clear when, or whether, any workers will be reinstated.
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By Emma Parsons
The Gate Gourmet catering workers at Heathrow Airport, London, remain locked out, months after being sacked and three weeks after they voted for a deal they thought would end the dispute.
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As of 18 October, nearly three weeks after Gate Gourmet appeared to have signed a deal for some reinstatements, Gate Gourmet workers are still locked out. Meanwhile, Gate Gourmet workers in Dusseldorf, Germany, have struck in a separate dispute.
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By Alan Porter
Under a deal negotiated by the TGWU — and announced to the press before consulting its members — just 187 of 713 workers sacked by Gate Gourmet the airline catering company based at Heathrow, back in August will be reinstated.
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Under pressure from TGWU officials - who had announced to the press, before consulting the union members, that they had a deal - the locked-out Gate Gourmet workers have accepted a deal which loses most of their jobs and sees the union activists sacked.
