Workers at Teesside Airport could be going on strike later this year in a row over pay during the "crushing cost of living crisis", a union has said. Dozens of GMB members working as air traffic controllers and fire fighters at the airport have today begun voting on industrial action. The union says the workers have turned down a pay offer which amounts to a real terms pay cut. They also claimed airport bosses have "not engaged" since the offer was rejected and workers have not recieved a pay rise for years - with the gap in pay widening for airport staff.
But airport officials said they had "engaged positively over many months" with the union, and a different union has accepted the pay offer put forward. The ballot closes on September 28, with any industrial action likely to take place in October.
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