Siptu set to meet over Aer Lingus strike plan

Monday’s strike by Aer Lingus ground staff will go ahead unless the airline management reverses its demand for work practice efficiencies in return for propping up the ailing staff pension scheme.

Siptu shop stewards, who represent the staff, will meet this afternoon to discuss clarifications provided to them about a proposed new conciliation process.

The union had asked the Irish Congress of Trade Unions and the employers’ group Ibec, which together formulated that process, to clarify whether they would remove the need for “productivity measures” from the proposed talks.