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Threat of Irish ATC strike 8th Jan 2014

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  • #2
    the beerhunter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 119 ✭✭the beerhunter


    "industrial action" is not necessarily a strike, and it's not going to be on this occasion. either the times (whose online standard of journalism is frequently far below that of the print version) doesn't understand their own simplification of the term, or they've been told a lie by iaa management taking first shots in a public relations skirmish.

    the action is non-cooperation on a joint project with uk atc. the last thing irish controllers want to do is inconvenience the travelling public.


  • #3
    notharrypotter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭notharrypotter


    they've been told a lie by iaa management taking first shots in a public relations skirmish.

    The first casualty in war is the truth.

    Possibly Management getting the first salvo in early for a future PR battle hence the selective leak to the media?

    that industrial action had been threatened by air traffic control members of the union and was scheduled to start on January 8th.

    the authority, under aviation law, had to give at least one week’s notice of industrial action to airlines that may be effected

    The Irish Times article is dated 31 December last time I looked 31/12/13 to 8/1/14 is more than a week.

    No danger that both sides might sit down in the labour court and sort this?

    Getting a High Court injunction off the bat is like General Maxwell and his cannon.
    no bona fide trade dispute existed

    Interesting comment either they are in dispute or they are not.


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