Four shop stewards are to go on a hunger strike in protest at their treatment by the Transport and General Workers union (TG). The men are part of a group of 22 employees who were sacked from a security firm at Belfast International Airport five years ago, and who were awarded £600,000 in compensation for unfair dismissal. An industrial tribunal found the staff had been unfairly dismissed after going on strike in a pay dispute with their employer ICTS. It also ruled four shop stewards had been unlawfully discriminated against. Gordon McNeill and three other stewards - Madan Gupta, Chris Bowyer and Malcolm Spencer - claim they did not get the backing of their union for the legal strike, and now plan to go on a hunger strike, beginning tomorrow. McNeill told BBC News: "Unfortunately our trade union, for whatever reason, did not take the decision to take the matter on and move it forward," he said. "We have had to battle for five years. We need answers to questions from our...



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