The high paid engineering work is fast disappearing away from Luton with Monarch going bust, Gulfstream moving to Farnborough and Signature stopping aircraft maintenance work.
Clearly jobs will be created at an expanded airport but the proposed new terminal, car parks and aprons will generate in the main low paid work, both zero hour, part time and full time work working 24/7 shift patterns. Airport security staff have only recently ended a strike as LLAOL forced them into new contracts where they got only 9 weekends off per year and were forced to work an extra 15 days per year.
While some here would love to work at the airport most people just want a living wage, doing 9-5 hours with the weekend off. My son did baggage handling at the airport for around 9 months, was stuck on a 20 hour contract working on some days just 4 hours and having to work any hour of the day or night. He would have loved to have worked on a business park but lucky for him he has now broken free from the airport and now works normal hours so he can always watch his beloved football.
The truth is that airport companies with 24/7 shift patterns or 4 am start times struggle to get staff and retain staff on the wages they pay as the work is regarded as shiite by many of the staff doing the work. As pointed out in a previous post you have only to look at the vacancies to see keeping staff is a problem at the airport yet a few here want more of the same as the quality of the job matters little.
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