PHOTO CALL: Back Heathrow's third runway and safeguard over 200,000
jobs, urges Unite
13 January 2009
PHOTO CALL: Back Heathrow's third runway and safeguard over 200,000
jobs, urges Unite
Date: Wednesday, 14th January 2009
Venue: College Green, Westminster, SW1A
Time: 1pm
Workers from Heathrow and other UK airports
will take the case for a third runway to Parliament tomorrow,
concerned that further delay puts jobs and development at risk.
The workers - members of Unite, the biggest
union in civil aviation - will gather tomorrow (14th January) for a
photo-opportunity at the Palace of Westminster in support of the
construction of a third runway at Heathrow airport. They will be
holding a banner with the message “Backing Heathrow - Backing
Britain”.
Unite members who work at various UK airports
will also be addressing Parliamentarians as part of the campaign to
"set the record straight" about the Heathrow expansion.
The UK's leading union is urging the
Government to give the green light to the construction of a third
runway. Unite is concerned that unless this once in a lifetime
opportunity to secure the UK's biggest world class airport is
grasped now, the chance to support jobs now and provide much-needed
employment opportunities during the recession will be lost.
Unite joint general secretary, Derek Simpson,
said: “There can be no further delay in the modernisation of
Heathrow, the UK's only international hub airport. Heathrow should
be the jewel in our crown but it is falling behind world class
standards.
“Only modernisation at Heathrow will keep
Britain on the global transport map and stop our cities and
industries losing out to our competitors in Europe. Now of all
times we need to seize the opportunities to create more jobs and
preserve this country's status as a world-leading economy.”
ENDS
For further information please contact Pauline
Doyle on 07976 832 861.
