UNITE members at two of Scotland’s busiest airports are celebrating key workplace victories this week.

Fresh from launching its Runway to Success campaign to turn around a sector long dogged by subcontracting and pressure on workers’ pay, terms and conditions, the union has won a recognition agreement with OCS covering the 130 passenger assistance workers at Edinburgh Airport.

As the agreement was being signed, 200 of their colleagues working with Menzies Aviation at Glasgow airport were already seeing the benefits of theirs, with a 6.8 per cent wage rise and overtime pay increasing by a third.