Job Losses 'Caused By Less Airline Business'

Baggage handling bosses have insisted dwindling airline traffic meant compulsory redundancies at Liverpool John Lennon Airport were essential. Servisair broke its silence to explain why it is proceeding with around 35 job losses at JLA, which has led to discontinuous strike action since November.

Members of the GMB union have staged picket lines for more than four weeks, walking out for two hours in a morning and afternoon, four days a week.

The Runcorn-based firm said airlines reducing flights equated to less need for staff to deal with customers' baggage.

Servisair insisted that a profit to "maintain the investment in capital equipment, technology, etc" was crucial.

But Eddie Parker, regional organiser for GMB, said: "This is not the end of our members' dispute at JLA, it is the beginning of our struggle to oppose every change at JLA that is not warranted or justified."

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