GUERNSEY can expect widespread industrial action if any changes to public sector pensions are not properly negotiated.

UP TO £250,000 has been earmarked by the States for the airport firefighter dispute investigation – more than twice the sum deputies initially expected.

GUERNSEY’S airport could close as a result of a tribunal of inquiry set up to look at what caused the last stoppage.

AIRPORT firefighters have demanded a public apology from Deputy Sam Maindonald over her comment that they ‘went on planned sick leave’.

ANYONE who reads the correspondence sent to States members yesterday regarding the closure of the airport and the subsequent return to work of the firefighters will be struck by two things.

CHIEF MINISTER Lyndon Trott has written to all States members to explain how the airport firefighters were persuaded to call off last week’s industrial action. 

Strike action by teachers and civil servants is unlikely to follow the latest temporary deal signed by firefighters, according to their union representatives.

GUERNSEY will pay dearly for Chief Minister Lyndon Trott’s intervention in the airport firefighter dispute, according to Public Sector Remuneration Committee chairman Al Brouard.

PUBLIC SERVICES did a dramatic U-turn in agreeing to pay firefighters £4,000 to keep the airport open for a year, it emerged yesterday.

WHAT happens next in the unfolding drama surrounding the ending of the airport firefighters’ industrial action and the sacking/resignation of the States pay and conditions negotiating body may well be a defining moment in the evolution of the States of Guernsey as an effective government.