Aer Rianta unions plan to disrupt EU presidency

AER RIANTA workers will issue a timetable for industrial action next Monday that will cause major disruption to Ireland’s presidency of the EU.

Monday is the deadline they have given Transport Minister Seamus Brennan to grant them an independent review of his decision to break up Aer Rianta into three companies to run Shannon, Cork and Dublin airports.

The workers claim the three airports will not be viable as separate units and will be competing against each other for a limited pool of business. But the minister says the move will help each airport grow substantially because they will have the freedom to go after their own new markets.