Aer Lingus cabin crew prepare for ballot on pay freeze move

AER Lingus cabin crew will decide next Friday whether to ballot their 1,500 members for industrial action over the airline’s decision to impose a pay freeze across the company.

The union will hold special general meetings with its members in Cork, Shannon, Dublin and Britain where it will discuss three issues: the pay freeze, the potential ballot for industrial action and a recommendation from the Labour Court released yesterday, aimed mainly at the airline’s cabin crew as well as the company’s other 3,200 workers affected by the airline’s €20 million cost cutting document Programme for Continuous Improvement (PCI-07).

That is the second Labour Court recommendation on PCI-07. It said it was concerned the cost savings the court backed in its first direction last March had still not been implemented by the company under agreement with the unions.