Check-in staff and refuelling workers have called off plans to strike after salary increases were accepted.
British Airways check-in staff no longer plan to take strike action at Heathrow as workers accept a 13% pay increase.
More than 500 members of Unite had voted for industrial action as they sought to restore a 10% pay cut imposed by BA during the pandemic under threat of being fired.
However, Unite has confirmed members were balloted and accepted a new BA offer, following “extensive negotiations”.
The offer, which will be paid in several stages, is worth 13% for the workers. Additionally, shift pay reductions that were forced on workers in 2020 will be reversed from October 2022.
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “This is a great result for our check-in members at British Airways. By standing together, they have forced a corporate giant like BA to do the right thing and restore levels of pay slashed in the pandemic.
“This is a further example of how Unite’s relentless focus on winning better jobs, pay and conditions for its members in delivering.”
Russ Ball, Unite regional officer, said: “Special praise must be given to Unite’s reps who were critical to ensuring this dispute was a success.
“Their hard work, dedication and commitment has been essential to ensuring that members had the confidence to support industrial action and that workers were fully informed throughout the dispute.”
Additionally, workers employed by Aviation Fuel Services (AFS) have also abandoned plans for strike action, after receiving a 12.5% pay increase, which will be backdated to April.
Unite said the workers had not received a pay rise for three years, during which time they had seen their incomes fall by 15.5% in real terms.
AFS had previously made an offer of a 10% increase but this was rejected by members “as it did not meet their expectations”, said the union.
The strike, scheduled for July 21-24, would have caused delays to hundreds of flights.
Unite has now confirmed the workers have accepted the 12.5% pay increase.
Regional officer Kevin Hall said: “This deal would not have been achieved without the hard work of Unite’s brilliant AFS reps. Their hard work and determination really paid off.”
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Martin Chalk, Balpa general secretary, said: “Norse has proven to be a standout employer, valuing core principles such employee engagement, a competitive pay and benefit package and vital union collaboration.”