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UK Airport Strikes Called Off

3rd January 2008 The BBC have reported that unions have called off three strikes set for January that threatened to close the UK's busiest airports.

Officials voted to halt the industrial action after airport operator BAA eased plans to alter workers' pensions right.

The strikes would have hit all of BAA's seven UK airports, including Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Edinburgh.

Under the terms of the plan, BAA and the unions will meet to consider the future of the pension fund and call in independent experts to assess it.

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