Belfast Airport Workers Win Court Victory

[BOZG]

Last week, twenty two airport security workers at Belfast International airport, who were sacked in 2002 for going on strike, won a landmark Industrial Tribunal case against their employer, security company ICTS. Most significantly, the four shop stewards, two of them Socialist Party members, have won their case that they were sacked because of their ‘trade union opinions and socialist political beliefs."


Full article (http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2007/09/05nireland.html)

[PRC-UTE]

that's fantastic news and very surprising. if I read it correctly, they were awarded a large settlement but not their old jobs back?

[bolshevik butcher]

This is excellent news, and a fantastic example to the labour movement at large. Well done to the workers and shop stewards. I hope that they are able to continue their fight.