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this is happening in many parts of the world. we ve heard in the last few days about dublin airport and amsterdam close to home, but if you look around the internet, you can see rapidly the us has had problems. australia, other parts of europe. this shows the industry as a whole is really struggling to get back to normal staffing levels. we saw restrictions on travel removed quite late in the normal period of planning to resource up for peak season. and it s not a matter of putting a job advert out and recruiting people straight off the street. complicated training is required. security vetting is required processes become much more complicated. and when airlines and airports earn no money for two years, they didn t actually have the financial means to do that in advance or proactively when they were simply bleeding, basically. let s speak now to andy prendergast who s national secretary at the gmb union airport security and ground staff and those who work at airport shops and restaura