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BBC NEWS | Business | Gate Gourmet settlement reached: "Gate Gourmet settlement reached

The sacked Gate workers had campaigned to get their jobs back
A settlement has been reached in the dispute between in-flight caterer Gate Gourmet and the Transport and General Workers Union, it has been revealed.
Details of the agreement have not yet been disclosed, but it will be put to a mass meeting of workers on Tuesday.
If the deal is ratified by both sides, they have pledged to work together.
The dispute started in August when the caterer sacked 670 workers in a dispute over restructuring. Staff at British Airways then walked out in sympathy.
In a joint statement, Gate Gourmet and the union (T&G) said details of the settlement would not be released until Wednesday afternoon.
'Both the company and the union are pleased that a way forward has been found, and if the agreement is ratified, both sides have committed to working together to rebuild trust and confidence after all the difficulties of recent weeks.' they said.
Redundancy deals
The two-day wildcat action by British Airways (BA) ground staff at Heathrow grounded all the airline's flights from the airport, leaving more than 100,000 passengers stranded, and costing the airline an estimated �40m ($72m).
After the BA staff had returned to work, the stand-off at Gate Gourmet rumbled on, with the sacked staff picketing outside the caterer's Heathrow factory.
To try to end the dispute, at the end of August Gate Gourmet offered all staff - including those that had been sacked - redundancy packages.
About 700 staff - 300 of those sacked and 400 from the existing Gate Gourmet employees - applied to accept the offer, according to the union.
Yet one remaining disagreement at the time was Gate Gourmet's insistence that it would not re-"