Next weekend’s security staff strikes at Heathrow have been postponed as Unite, the union, considers a pay offer.

Last week security staff at the UK’s largest airport announced an escalation of strike action, with walkouts to take place nearly every weekend from mid-June to the end of August.

Two thousand staff were due to strike on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 June but they have been called off as a “gesture of goodwill”, the union said, as staff are balloted on an “improved” pay offer.

A Heathrow spokesperson said: “We are pleased to have agreed a pay deal which unions are recommending their members to accept. This a great deal for colleagues, giving them two years of guaranteed above-inflation pay rises, alongside further benefits and assurances that they told us they wanted.

“We encourage them to accept the deal so that everyone can have certainty and the backdated pay increase that so many have been waiting for.”

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