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| Unite calls off Heathrow strikes set for late July | Unite calls off Heathrow strikes set for late July |
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| Strikes by 4,000 Heathrow airport workers on Friday and Saturday have been called off so they can vote on a new pay offer. | Strikes by 4,000 Heathrow airport workers on Friday and Saturday have been called off so they can vote on a new pay offer. |
| The strikes would have hit flights on one of the busiest weekends of the summer. | The strikes would have hit flights on one of the busiest weekends of the summer. |
| Frontline staff have been offered a 7.3% pay increase over two-and-a-half years. | |
| Two more 48-hour strikes from 5 August and 23 August are still on the table until the result of the vote are known. | |
| Should the pay offer be accepted, those strikes would also be called off. | |
| A Heathrow spokesperson said: "We are pleased that Unite have decided to put our offer to our colleagues and to pause industrial action on 26 and 27 July. | |
| "We welcome this outcome, as will thousands of passengers, whose holidays will now go to plan this weekend. | |
| The spokesperson added that the proposed deal provided "significantly above inflation pay rises for all colleagues". | |
| Earlier in July, Heathrow staff rejected an 18-month pay rise offer averaging 2.7%. | Earlier in July, Heathrow staff rejected an 18-month pay rise offer averaging 2.7%. |
| At the time, the union said the workers were angry over pay rates, including different pay rates for the same job. | At the time, the union said the workers were angry over pay rates, including different pay rates for the same job. |
| There was also disquiet over the pay package of airport boss John Holland-Kaye, who got £4.2m in 2018, up from £2.1m in 2017, mainly thanks to a long-term bonus scheme. | There was also disquiet over the pay package of airport boss John Holland-Kaye, who got £4.2m in 2018, up from £2.1m in 2017, mainly thanks to a long-term bonus scheme. |
| Separately, on Tuesday British Airways lost a legal bid to stop its pilots from going on strike over pay in the summer holiday season, but said it planned to appeal against the decision. | Separately, on Tuesday British Airways lost a legal bid to stop its pilots from going on strike over pay in the summer holiday season, but said it planned to appeal against the decision. |
| The pilots' union has yet to set any dates for industrial action. | The pilots' union has yet to set any dates for industrial action. |