Aer Lingus unions dismiss IAG bid support

Trade unions at Aer Lingus have distanced themselves from claims from a person within their ranks that workers are now in favour of a takeover by IAG.

A member of the airlines’s Central Representative Council — an Irish Congress of Trade Union grouping of the airline’s trade unions — claimed yesterday that employees are excited by the growth opportunities a successful takeover by Willie Walsh’s International Airlines Group (IAG) would provide.

CRC secretary Myles Worth said that the takeover by IAG would help secure Aer Lingus’s future and protect it from future downturns, a significant shift from its previously stated position.