Airline cutbacks to spark union revolt

Strike action is firmly on the cards as management and unions are set to clash over Aer Lingus cost-cutting plans, writes Stephen Rogers.

Airline cutbacks to spark union revolt

YESTERDAY it was slammed for threatening millions of euro of investment into the mid-west — today Aer Lingus faces mass revolt over its internal cost cutting.

The airline and worker representatives will be in the same room for the first time today since Aer Lingus chief executive Dermot Mannion wrote to unions SIPTU, IMPACT and the Irish Airline Pilots Association last Thursday, telling them in no uncertain terms to put up or shut up over the company’s Programme for Continuous Improvement (PCI-07).

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