Gate Gourmet Dispute at London's Heathrow Airport

1 September 2005
Airline caterer in the UK digs in heels over “militants”
Management at the UK operations of an inflight caterer has...

Background Information
The ITF-affiliated Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) has been in negotiations with Gate Gourmet since February over measures to deal with projected operating losses at Heathrow...

Sample Protest Letter
send letters of protest to Gate Gourmet over the sacking of catering workers at London's Heathrow airport.

Sample letter of Support
here is a sample of a letter that can be sent to TGWU in solidarity with the sacked Gate Gourmet workers at London's Heathrow Airport.

Catering workers sacked at Heathrow
11 August 2005: The airline caterer Gate Gourmet has sacked nearly eight hundred catering workers at London's Heathrow Airport.

• Transport and General Workers' Union (T & G)
  With over 835,000 members in every type of workplace the T&G is the UK's biggest general union
• U.S. UNIONS SUPPORT FIRED WORKERS AT GATE GOURMET, HEATHROW
  From UNITEHERE.ORG: 11/08/05: Union members stand in solidarity with sacked Heathrow workers
• EXCLUSIVE: SECRET PLOT TO SACK BA CATERERS
  From the Daily Mirror UK: CATERING firm's [Gate Gourmet] cynical plot to sack its Heathrow workers.