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Heathrow Airport expected to pay its shareholders £1.5bn while its workers receive poverty pay, union says
Security guard members of the Unite union on the picket line at Heathrow Airport, London, March 31, 2023
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STRIKE-hit Heathrow Airport plans to pay out more than £1.5 billion in dividend payments to shareholders while holding down staff wages, Unite said today.
The union warned of a “dividend bonanza” following an in-depth Civil Aviation Authority study into the expected five-year profits of Heathrow Airport Holdings (HAL), which runs the site.
The intervention came ahead of the latest strike by 1,400 security officers at Britain’s busiest airport, which faces another three-day walkout from Thursday in a dispute over plummeting take-home pay.
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