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Updated at 5.20pm
A STRIKE OF Ryanair pilots is set to go ahead next week unless company management meet with the Impact union before it is scheduled.
Irish Ryanair pilots who are members of Ialpa – which is part of the Impact trade union – announced earlier this week that they would be holding a strike this Wednesday over employee conditions.
The Ireland pilots were to be joined in their action by Portugal, while pilots in Germany, Italy and Spain had all said that were considering undertaking industrial action.
The dispute centres around employe conditions, with pilots asking that they be allowed to negotiate using unions, and Ryanair refusing to recognise unions.
That changed yesterday when the airline said that it would give pilot unions recognition as official organisations – marking a major break from the budget carrier’s longstanding policy.
Christmas flights are “very important to our customers,” O’Leary said in a statement.
The airline, he said, wished to remove “any worry or concern that they may be disrupted by pilot industrial action next week”.
If the best way to achieve this is to talk to our pilots through a recognised union process, then we are prepared to do so, and we have written today to these unions inviting them to talks to recognise them and calling on them to cancel the threatened industrial action planned for Christmas week.
It was hoped that this would help to avert Wednesday’s strike action.
However, speaking to RTÉ News today, Impact spokesperson Bernard Harbor said that the union wanted to meet with Ryanair officials before the strike was called off.
“We are ready to meet them today or tomorrow if necessary and we want to have that meeting just to make sure that there is substance to the offer they made in writing and to flesh out how that recognition process would proceed,” he said.
Once we have that we’re ready to lift the industrial action but we need to do that first.
Ryanair has previously said that it will not be able to meet with union officials until Wednesday.
In a statement today, a spokesperson for Ryanair said:
“Ryanair today confirmed that the German pilot union and IMPACT/IALPA have agreed to Ryanair’s offer of meetings to agree union recognition on Wednesday 20 December.
“Ryanair has also offered to meet IMPACT/IALPA and their Ryanair pilot committee on Tuesday 19 December if that would suit them better.
“The Portuguese pilot union has requested a meeting next week and Ryanair has offered to meet them on Thursday 21 December. The British and Italian pilots’ unions have agreed to meet with Ryanair in early January.
Ryanair has again called on IMPACT/ IALPA to cancel the threatened industrial action on Wednesday 20 December (as the Italian and German unions have already done) which is causing unnecessary concern and worry for thousands of Ryanair customers travelling home during Christmas week.
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and the majority of them will not take wheelchair jobs, I know from trying to get one several times
Now the hard part, getting them to pick up wheelchair users!
A lot of these are going to be put up for sale shortly after. Free money
@Sickof thisshit: basically, that’s it …the trust of the article seems to be those whinging & bitching they weren’t quick enough on the keyboard…… ‘ early bird + worm’ comes to mind
@Sickof thisshit: Except you can’t sell them.
@Gerard Carey: exactly, they have to be held for 5 years in the case of private ownership, slightly longer for commercial
@Sickof thisshit: nope u can’t sell em.
@Sickof thisshit: no they will not be it’s simply not possible. Sorry to leave facts stand in your way.
Amazing how little understanding or support for the disability community shown by the posters on here.
Actually it is not when I think about it.
Usual Ableist comments from people with not an ounce of empathy!
The question Peadar and the minister for transport minister need to be asking is how are 6 people at present advertising on donedeal that they have (4)251 WAV taxis soon to be here for €375 per week. How did these manage to get numerous grants in others names and then fleece lads who want to be taxi drivers….
Existing taxi drivers with plates are now cashing in on the ridiculous situation created by idiots in NTA and DOT.
They have started to rent their plates out for €6000 per year on donedeal(check if don’t believe me) and are then applying for new WAV license for €175 and this means even more people applying for the WAV grant.
The 6k per year pays for the new car minus grant over 5/6 years
The NTA should abolish the 10 year rule as this is a big strain on drivers to scrap perfectly good cars and have to spend 40k plus replacing them.
@Dave G Doe: I would if I needed a taxi and it was clean. Seen taxis imabroad nearly 20 yo in mint condition
I think you will find very little Irish will get the new licence, that’s why the portal closed after 15 minutes
@pauley870: all the Muhammad’s will have cleaned them up
What about the other vehicle owners they don’t get handouts they have to pay vrt & yat a bit of a joke
@Thomas Brophy: Other taxi drivers?
Grant is open to all taxi drivers. The older drivers are the lucky ones who can avail of the €25k grant for a new electric vehicle. Put a brand new Tesla on the road for €25k after grant and spend €6 a night charging rather than dragging a dirty diesel around and spending €30 a day.
Greed
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