SIPTU workers propose cost-saving measures for airport authority

SIPTU members working for the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) have put forward proposals which could allow the authority to at least partly realise its aim of introducing €40 million in cost savings.

The union has proposed an “employee recovery investment contribution”, which would provide that if the DAA returns to its former growth, workers could return to former salary levels as well as receiving a dividend. Both sides are due to appear at the Labour Relations Commission in the coming days, a move sparked by the company’s cessation of its voluntary severance scheme under which it had hoped to secure 500 redundancies, which, it is understood, has so far only yielded €20m in savings.

According to Industrial Relations News, the SIPTU civil aviation branch says the purpose of its latest proposals “is to help our representatives understand the very many complexities attached to the Dublin Airport Authority’s cost recovery programme” and explores “the difficult and varied solutions to the challenges we face”.