Aer Lingus staff striking on Christmas eve?

Loco

What are the chances? Looks like they are high..

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1113/1226408582888.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/3403269/Aer-Lingus-staff-vote-to-strike-over-cost-cutting-plans.html

"We call on management to avert mass disruption to the travelling public by entering talks with us now."

Talks at the Labour Relations Commission collapsed in recent weeks, with each side blaming the other.

Siptu said its members also voted by 89 per cent for limited industrial action against the plans, and by 97% to invoke legislation on collective redundancies invoked after the Irish Ferries.

Aer Lingus has set December 15 as the deadline for acceptance of a severance package and early retirement scheme on offer to staff.

Loco

youcancallme>al wrote: »

They wouldn't be that stupid. Any notion of sympathy for their plight would well and truly be lost and it would more than likely be the death knell for Aer Lingus altogether.

I wouldn't put it past them. They cancelled a flight on me, let hundreds of passengers queue hours into the morning and gave no refund on the cancelled flight.

What possessed me to take my Christmas flight home with AerLingus i don't know!

Drummerboy2

Aer LIngus plan to get rid of 1,300 employees almost immediately, so staff really haven't got much time to try and save their jobs. So I wouldn't be booking flights with AL for a while. The workers are looking for employment not sympathy.

Loco

NinjaTruncs wrote: »

agree with above.
Also possibly put a question mark at the end of the thread title so as not to give anyone a heart attack.

Nah.

Loco

Drummerboy2 wrote: »

Aer LIngus plan to get rid of 1,300 employees almost immediately, so staff really haven't got much time to try and save their jobs. So I wouldn't be booking flights with AL for a while. The workers are looking for employment not sympathy.

Well overdue though. The airline is run by a bunch of jokers. I was very silly booking Aer Lingus for such an important flight

mikedragon32

Title changed by popular demand!*



*Not necessarily true - thread title was slightly misleading. I don't want ye thinking I'm into power to the people

mikedragon32

loco wrote:

Well overdue though. The airline is run by a bunch of jokers.

To be fair, it's not the clowns who run the airline who'll be laid off. The vast majority will be the people who actually do the work of operating an airline. Pilots, cabin crew, ground crew...

Loco

mikedragon32 wrote: »

To be fair, it's not the clowns who run the airline who'll be laid off. The vast majority will be the people who actually do the work of operating an airline. Pilots, cabin crew, ground crew...

From what I've seen lately, most industries don't just target lower level staff, redundancies are enforced at all levels. Obviously a vast majority will be operating staff, that is because the vast majority of staff are operating staff...

Have you any proof that the people who run the airline are secure in their jobs?

Also, I don't see the need in changing the thread title. A question mark is not going to change people's worry over the simple truth, a strike over Christmas is looking very likely.

BuffyBot

Already a thread on this. No need for another.