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ALL CURRENT AND planned industrial action by pilots at Emerald Airlines has been suspended ahead of a meeting between union officials and management today.
Emerald Airlines operates regional flights, including the Dublin to Donegal service on behalf of Aer Lingus and UK regional routes trading as Aer Lingus Regional.
The pilots who served the notice of industrial action are members of the Irish Air Line Pilots’ Association (IALPA), which is a branch of the trade union Fórsa.
Emerald pilots had been engaged in a strict work-to-rule since 24 June, which escalated last week.
Fórsa had also issued notice to Emerald Airlines of a 24-hour work stoppage which was due to take place this Friday. That planned action is now suspended.
The industrial action was in response to the airline’s failure to engage with the union to form a collective labour agreement for pilots employed at the carrier.
Union officials and Emerald Airlines management are to meet this morning, trade union Fórsa said.
The union confirmed the suspension of industrial action in correspondence issued to Emerald Airlines yesterday.
Fórsa national secretary Katie Morgan said suspending the action is to allow for meaningful engagement at today’s meeting.
Morgan said the union hopes to reach agreement with Emerald Airlines to negotiate a collective labour agreement covering pilots terms and conditions of employment.
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A warning. That’s that sorted so. Nothing to see here.. Move along.
Ballot rigging citizens would face prison time, politicians get an angry letter.. You couldn’t make this up..
@Wreck Tangle: vote early and vote often has been rampant for decades. No jail for any citizen to date.
@Alan McArdle: Absolutely, noone ever thought it was ok to do it though. At least people accepted it was wrong or at least dodgy. The standard Irish politician response seems to be “I didn’t do it”. When they can’t get away with that, e.g., due to photographic evidence, the response is “it’s not wrong” or “everyone does it”.
@Wreck Tangle: Musical Chairs, in the Dail.!
So is she the only one?, what about the rest of them or is she the example?
@Honeybee: just her. They’re hoping in 1-2 years we’ll have blended her face in our memories with Maria Bailey
Remember both Leo & Martin have also admitted to partaking in the same practices.
A practice which is in complete violation of the Constitution (15.11.1) but yet all they are going to get is a sternly worded letter.
I’m just waiting for the cops to begin an investigation into voting fraud in the Dáil.
Maybe as a nation we should all vote on behalf of each other or maybe we all vote multiple times come the next GE.
Sure look my cousin is living in the US so I suppose I’ll vote on his behalf too all the while claiming “I wasn’t aware I couldn’t do this”, “I thought he was still in the country” or simply just claim that we were all just following the examples set by our government.
#DaílCheatsCheatUsAll
#Present&Voting
Ah poor Lisa, no Santa this Christmas coz you have been a bold girl
Politics in Ireland!
NO ACCOUNTABILITY, NO RESPONSIBILITY, NO TRANSPARENCY, NO GUILT, NO SHAME, NOBODY GETS SACKED, NOBODY GOES TO JAIL!
VOTE for FG FF Independent Alliance to be sure to be sure to uphold the status quo!
@Bernard Kavanagh: How come the Chairman of the Dail, didn’t notice these individuals moving seats. And he sits on an elevated Chair.
@ÓDuibhír Abú: It’s a very comfy chair, and he probably doesn’t want to upset the apple cart. He is a member of the establishment.
Living in a gangster paradise…
They are laughing at us …
A warning for this kind of behaviour is an insult to the irish public
Fraud fraud fraud
Politics in Ireland needs radical change starting with a contract which can be terminated.
if any citizen voted twice they would face the full rigure of the law and be jailed,howev chambers collins dooley can trample on the constitutio and act in a manner fitting for members of Junta in a banana republic.
There is very little they can do. She (any TD) works for the people who elected her, not the party. So the only people capable of removing her from her post is the electorate. Even suspending her would be an affront to the people who voted for her, denying them representation in the Dail for the duration of her suspension. That would almost certainly be unconstitutional. So the party are kinda stuck.
@lambda sensor: the only other thing they could do is to remove the whip from her
@lambda sensor: fine her
@lambda sensor: “She (any TD) works for the people who elected her, not the party”
I beg to differ. FG is party first with the electorate way down their list of priorities.
Vote gate is only makey uppy
Helen would never have done that Lisa…..
Their excuses are an insult to our intelligence
“She accidentally sat in Dara Calleary’s seat, she explained”
Yeah right
A 1500€ fine is what she should get
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