HUNDREDS of essential workers at Glasgow Airport will strike later this month unless “highly profitable” employers table “fair offers” on pay.

Around 100 airport ambassadors, airside support officers, engineers and managers at Glasgow Airport Ltd have voted 98.7 per cent in favour of taking industrial action over pay.

They will join 250 security comrades at ICTS Central Search centre engaged in a similar dispute and another 100 – including baggage handlers – at Swissport in dispute over working rotas and work-life balance, and health and safety concerns.

Warning strike action could begin on July 18, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “Employers at Glasgow Airport will not get away with underpaying or mistreating Unite’s members. 

“Hundreds of workers are involved in disputes at the airport. Summer strike action which would ground planes and passengers remains on the cards. 

“These highly profitable companies can easily afford to put the minds of the travelling public at rest by making fair offers to workers.” 

A Glasgow Airport statement said: “We are reviewing the ballot results and remain open to finding a sensible resolution.”