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THE LABOUR RELATIONS Commission has intervened in a dispute between Aer Lingus and staff represented by IMPACT over plans to close a cabin crew base at Shannon Airport, which employs 87 people.
Director of Conciliation Services Kevin Foley has requested that both parties meet him this Friday to discuss the dispute and try to come to an agreement. Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Foley said that “both parties have indicated they are prepared to meet with the commission on Friday”.
He stressed that the meeting called is specifically to do with the dispute in Shannon and not yesterday’s ballot.
Yesterday, trade union IMPACT announced its ballot of cabin crew resulted in a 91 per cent vote in favour of industrial action, up to and including strike. The union said the dispute centres around roster issues and breaches of agreements previously made through negotiations.
Staff have also expressed opposition to the closure of the Shannon cabin crew base, the union said yesterday.
Niall Shanahan of IMPACT told TheJournal.ie that it is always the union’s position that “negotiation is better than the absence of meaningful engagement.” “This is a place where problems get solved”, Shanahan said.
While Foley said that the LRC is “aware” of the separate dispute over rosters and breaches of agreements, he said that for now, the commission is “observing” the situation.
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All cabin crew asked for was the company to engage in talks over enforced changes to rosters etc, as usual the company has to force their staff into this situation before they’ll engage, could potentially have saved a lot of time and problems if management had only take this step months ago.
Dave
This Union and those workers have caused Aer Lingus to cancel an expansion plan for the airline to the US because of outmoded and out of date ideas that things must be done the way they always were and what has reality to do with anything approaches.
How the Company is still in business after the years of political misuse of its assets and gross pampering of staff is beyond me. Of course we do easily forget that for most of its life Aer Lingus had a monopoly and didn’t have to deal with any competition and prices for a Dublin London flight were more typical of a cross Atlantic fare!
Let them have their strike and let’s insist that the Government hands over its stake in the Company to Ryanair as they have done more for tourism in Ireland over the last ten years than these leeches ever did in their entire history.
Aer Lingus have not cancelled any expansion plan.The routes and leased Aircraft will go ahead,The new jobs for cabin crew will be created by Air Contractors and Not Aer Lingus
As for “That’s all folks” the real world eh?
Do you work a 10 hour day with NO break?
Have you been on a pay freeze on top of pay cuts you’ve taken for 5 years?
Can you have to work 11 days with maybe 1 day off?
Do you work a week which can have 5am starts followed by 5pm starts, followed by working thru the night on a period of 5 days?
Do you have a boss who will happily go against the working agreements they’ve put in place with in whatever way suits them and as they see fit?
I could go on and on all night, if you are going to come on here with comments it’d be great if you had a little knowledge about what’s actually happening, cheers
Sack them all. Problem solved. A company is run to be profitable. It’s not a “looking after children and paying my mortgage” charity.
They will do to their company the same thing the Waterford glass workers did..they will cause it to go bust.
Get Michael I Leary in he’d sort the mess out
Have to disagree with you Richie, the expansion plan know as Greenfield has been implemented and successfully by the company in removing nearly €97m euro in costs, the majority of which have been taken thru working conditions, pay structures etc over the last few years hence the €250m profit the company have made over the last 4 years (2013 incl.) sadly the company wants to continue to rip apart the last few conditions the workers have to push profits a little higher and more importantly to increase their own profit share and bonuses. The staff have done their bit a plenty more besides, the company’s strap line is “Great Care, Great Fare”, how they can promise such a thing to the public when they are trying to decimate the jobs of the “Great Care” part baffles me. Enough is enough, time for the management to look at other avenues than staff to boost their fat back pockets!
Your wasting your time talking about the workings of the issues involved with the likes of Richie, Steve and Despicable me on here. There right wing trolls Dave. There answers are always the same, sack them, it’s the unions fault, everything’s to expensive staff are paid to much, no ones living in the real world but me etc etc etc… They only own half truths (usually negative) about any story on the journal….
Surely its the nature of the business that you go where the planes go?
These lot drive me nuts they are pampered and overpaid by enlarge and no doubt the folks doing the most menial work on the lowest pay are treated worst. How dare they!
Do they actually know anything about the real world and what the rest of us have to do in our jobs. Unions are gone to the dogs they used to be about protecting workers rights now they are a sham one extreme to the other. No doubt I will be bombarded with red thumbs bring it on…..
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