Manchester Airport Strikes :( :( :(

[brer]

Great!!!

Manchester Airport have announced baggage strikes on the day we're flying to Corfu

Does anyone have any idea what will happen please?  Can't we take any luggage? I'm really worried now

~ C

[Hels Bels]

It depends who you are travelling with. I understand that the baggage handlers that are going on strike are Swissport the attached link shows the agent for each airline:

http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/manweb.nsf/Content/LostOrDelayedLuggage

Hope you are not affected.

[brer]

We are affected   It's a Monarch flight.

[riggers]

More doom and gloom from Manchester. Typical....


riggers...

[justphil]

As a long term union rep, I am also horrified if a baggage handlers strike wrecks the well earned holidays of ordinary working people. I have been on strike in the past, but all my members made totally sure that students never lost any of their education. Just created the right publicity for which always got a load of support including the local press and TV.

This strike could have been designed to make sure the participanys are cast as wreckers and ruiners and leaves them open to all sorts of abuse. Everybody remembers Arthur Scargill but that is not modern unionism.

I have the greatest sympathy with the baggage handlers. Like all of us they are suffering the hike in prices of everything. It will be the same in Greece. But privatisation, moving them out of the public sector and introducing "efficiency measures" by those who do not have to endure such cuts in their living standards is immoral.

And industrial unrest in Corfu has made it's mark already this year. See the posts. What else are people supposed to do if they not only have to suffer the world-wide rise in prices of fuel and food, but then have a government which kicks them again?

Sorry - Arillas is about holidays and this website is meant to be about that, but this applies everywhere. I can't help my passion for fairness.

Arillas is a slice of paradise and some of us are lucky enough to go and enjoy it. People's enjoyment of it shouldn't be destroyed by unions or governments alike.

Phil
sorry - my reputation is in tatters..........

[england]

The strike has now been called off

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1063606_airport_strike_called_off

[brer]

WOO HOO!!! *dancing*

I'd not see that but it's FAB news!!

Thank you!!

x

[justlynn]

Hi brer, pleased you have good news!

And Phil, couldn't agree more.........

lynn xx