Airline cabin crew ‘will not accept work practice efficiencies’

Cabin crew at Aer Lingus have joined with their ground colleagues in publicly declaring they will not accept work practice efficiencies in exchange for a company investment in the ailing pension scheme.

The company and unions are to once more enter talks in an effort to find a way of addressing the €750m deficit in the Irish airline’s superannuation scheme.

Siptu, which represents ground crew and a small number of cabin crew, had threatened to boycott the talks and proceed with disruptive industrial action over the requirement by management for “productivity measures” before it would invest up to €100m in the scheme.