TRAVELLERS are being warned to count on disruption on quite a lot of Scottish flights this week as workers go on strike.
Unite union members at a number of airports throughout the nation are set to strike for the second this week after strolling out final Friday.
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Dundee Airport is closed for flights in the present day for the second time in days.
Employees have staged demonstrations exterior the airport from 11am on each strike days.
Different Highlands and Islands (HIAL) airports on Barra, Benbecula, Stornoway, Sumburgh and Tiree will likely be hit by walkouts on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
And opening hours at Kirkwall airport is to be restricted.
However Hial confirmed Campbeltown, Dundee, Inverness, Islay and Wick John O’Groats airports will likely be working as regular on the three days of strike motion this week.
It comes as Unite members rejected a 5 per cent pay supply final 12 months.
And an awesome 73.5 per cent of workers who’re union members voted in favour of the strike motion in December 2022.
Members of a second union at Hial are additionally in dispute over pay and final week additionally voted in favour of strike motion.
The poll is alleged ot have concerned firefighters and safety workers working in any respect of Hial’s 11 airports.
Sharon Graham, Unite common secretary, stated: “Unite’s industrial motion is about to completely shut quite a lot of airports beginning with Dundee.
“Different airports will both function on a restricted foundation or be considerably disrupted.
“Let’s be clear that the supply of this dispute is because of the inflexibility proven by airport administration and the Scottish Authorities to
pay these staff what they deserve.
“Unite will totally assist our members within the struggle for higher jobs, pay and situations throughout the Highlands and Islands.
“Unite has no alternative however to escalate our industrial motion throughout the HIAL Group.
“Our members hold the airports working in remoted and rural communities. They assist to make sure that companies can commerce, staff can journey and guests can come to the islands.
“The way in which they’ve been handled by the Scottish Authorities and HIAL administration is deeply disappointing.
“Unite’s industrial motion will now trigger widespread disruption. Native communities, staff and companies ought to flip their hearth on the Scottish Authorities for ignoring these very important staff and permitting this dispute to escalate to some extent the place airports will now be totally closed.”
A Scottish Authorities spokesperson stated: “We completely respect the democratic proper of union members to take industrial motion – although it’s disappointing that passengers face the prospect of additional disruption.
“We encourage HIAL and Unite to proceed to interact in optimistic dialogue so as to resolve this dispute.”
Inglis Lyon, HIAL’s managing director stated: “We apologise prematurely for the disruption this motion by Unite colleagues will trigger for our airways and passengers.
“I’d urge anybody desiring to journey to contact their airline.
“The improved supply we offered maximised the pliability inside the Scottish Authorities’s pay coverage.
“Nonetheless, we stay in dialogue with Transport Scotland the commerce unions in an try and resolve the matter.”
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