Airport workers to strike in dispute over ‘poverty pay offer’

Airport workers are to take strike action in a dispute over an “insulting poverty pay offer”.

Unite the union said more than 100 OCS Group workers based at Edinburgh Airport will take part in a series of 48-hour stoppages next month.

The workers provide support for passengers with reduced mobility, including assisting with wheelchairs and ambulift vehicles.

Unite said the action comes after workers “overwhelmingly” rejected an offer from OCS management of £12.60 an hour, matching the Scottish living wage minimum rate.

Carrie Binnie, Unite industrial officer, said: “OCS workers are vital to assisting passengers with mobility issues at Edinburgh Airport.

“The company’s management should be valuing and rewarding the workers, instead it has tabled an insulting poverty pay offer.

“OCS has