Airport staff to vote in dispute over equality

Security workers at Glasgow Airport are to be balloted for possible industrial action in a pay dispute.

Unite is to ballot members working for International Consultants on Targeted Security (ICTS) which provides the baggage screening process for transatlantic and European flights for airlines including Emirates, American Airlines, Virgin and Thomas Cook.

The union said ICTS workers at the airport should be paid the same as those at Edinburgh Airport. It claimed a recent pay offer would have left workers in Glasgow earning nine pence an hour less than those in the capital.

Unite said members could take industrial action in August and all major airlines would be affected.

A Glasgow Airport spokesman said: “We are aware of the planned ballot and are liaising with ICTS in regards.”