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Heathrow workers left in tears over huge post-Christmas car parking price hike
A British Airways plane taking off from Heathrow Airport, October 29, 2012

HEATHROW AIRPORT workers have been left in tears after being told their monthly car parking charges will rise by almost 200 per cent.

GMB union said that at least 1,000 hard-up outsourced workers will have to pay the increased cost of £81.05, up from £27.19, from January 1.

Regional organiser for the union Perry Phillips said: “GMB has been inundated with calls from worried members who have been told that their staff car parking tariffs will treble. 

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