{"id":904060,"date":"2026-09-24T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904060\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:06:11","slug":"passengers-warned-as-double-strike-action-hits-sydney-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/904060\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers warned as double strike action hits Sydney Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were disruptions for travellers on Thursday morning, with hundreds of airport ground staff walking off the job over better pay and conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdqdPxLCSWK\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\">Certis <\/a>security workers and Qantas freight staff downed tools across the country at 7.30am and did not return to work until about 9.30am.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/7d7526f77970b766bbe7c8c216bbe77360d21d037c9549075c3e3459cf105d68.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Workers on strike at Sydney Airport.\u00a0Today<\/p>\n<p>The staff walked off the job to call for better pay, more full-time work opportunities and a less fragmented workforce.<\/p>\n<p>The industrial action took place at airports in Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>Travellers faced longer lines at security and baggage drop-off while the strike took place.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a planned two-hour stoppage from 6pm on Thursday and a three-hour strike on Monday at Sydney Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Workers Union national secretary Michael Kaine said people were concerned about \u201cinsecure work, highly casualised work, low guaranteed hours and poor\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He said the workers were on the lowest pay in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow does that make any sense when we\u2019ve got qantas reaping in $2 billion worth of profit in this financial year,\u201d Kaine said.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Airport has urged passengers to allow extra travel time and prepare for delays and disruptions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is to send a message to Qantas and to Sydney Airport that all those millions that are getting in profit, they need a bit back here for fair pay, for secure jobs, so these workers can support themselves and their families,\u201d Kaine said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a hard equation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Qantas said it did not anticipate the ground workers\u2019 strike would interrupt services or cause delays for passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Kaine said any disruption could be laid at the feet of Sydney Airport and Qantas.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were disruptions for travellers on Thursday morning, with hundreds of airport ground staff walking off the job&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-904060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}