Trade union delivers significant wage rises over recent years
 
Unite has secured an inflation beating pay rise for ICTS hold baggage screeners based at Glasgow airport, Scotland’s leading aviation trade union, confirmed today (Monday 16 February).
 
Around 50 ICTS hold baggage screeners covered by the deal backdated to October will see their basic pay increase by seven per cent alongside overtime rates being increased to time and half.
 
The latest deal follows a 9.8 per cent increase for the baggage screeners last year which was backdated to October 2024. The ICTS security agents perform tasks including the x-ray screening of hold baggage, document checks and the upkeep of the baggage system. 
 
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said, “Unite has delivered the latest excellent new wage deal for ICTS workers at Glasgow airport. Years of hard work by the members has gone into not only restoring jobs, pay and conditions but improving them. The ICTS deal continues to show that Unite delivers for workers across the aviation industry.”
 
Unite has clocked up a string of successes as part of its ‘Runway To Success’ campaign which was launched in May 2024 in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic which severely hit the aviation industry.
 
The campaign is designed to establish standards beyond the legal minimums across Scottish airports, and to restore jobs, pay and conditions removed during Covid including sick pay, holidays, and shift premiums.
 
Pat McIlvogue, Unite industrial officer, said: “In recent years Unite has significantly increased the hourly pay and allowances of ICTS workers at Glasgow airport.”
 
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Unite Scotland is the country’s biggest and most diverse trade union with around 150,000 members.