Security screeners at Perth Airport's Qantas terminal are poised to strike again after their employer locked staff out of the job for wearing "Paid Less in the West" T-shirts.
United Voice assistant secretary Pat O'Donnell says 11 screeners who were rostered on from 21h30 WST yesterday were frogmarched from the terminal within 30 minutes for donning the T-shirts and handing out stickers to travellers. He says the move reduced the number of screening points from two to one, and brought the total number of screeners indefinitely locked out of the job to 25.
The screeners are protesting against their employer MSS Security for offering them lower wages than many of their interstate counterparts. Rolling strikes were held from Tuesday to Saturday last week, and union members will meet later on Monday to decide whether to take further industrial action.
Meanwhile 40 screeners protested outside the terminal last night as part of the campaign. The action coincided with heavy fog last night and this morning that delayed flights at the airport, leaving long queues of frustrated travellers waiting for their flights to be rescheduled.
United Voice assistant secretary Pat O'Donnell says 11 screeners who were rostered on from 21h30 WST yesterday were frogmarched from the terminal within 30 minutes for donning the T-shirts and handing out stickers to travellers. He says the move reduced the number of screening points from two to one, and brought the total number of screeners indefinitely locked out of the job to 25.
The screeners are protesting against their employer MSS Security for offering them lower wages than many of their interstate counterparts. Rolling strikes were held from Tuesday to Saturday last week, and union members will meet later on Monday to decide whether to take further industrial action.
Meanwhile 40 screeners protested outside the terminal last night as part of the campaign. The action coincided with heavy fog last night and this morning that delayed flights at the airport, leaving long queues of frustrated travellers waiting for their flights to be rescheduled.
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