SIPTU pressures branch to lift airports’ strike threat

AS SIPTU yesterday continued its efforts to stop its civil aviation branch dragging all three airports to a halt next Thursday, it emerged the union told the branch several days ago that it would not sanction the strike action.

The civil aviation branch was, along with a number of other sections of the union, balloted for strike action over the perceived failure of employers to implement the terms of the transitional national wage agreement.

However, according to SIPTU, the civil aviation branch balloted its members for an additional strike action — over the failure of the Dublin Airport Authority to honour pay increments.