Siptu to learn if Aer Lingus staff are to join DAA in strike action

Siptu will today count the ballot of its members in Aer Lingus to establish whether they, like their colleagues in the Dublin Airport Authority, are prepared to strike over the €800m hole in their pension scheme.

Yesterday, Siptu’s members in Dublin and Cork airports voted 94% in favour of industrial action and 89% in favour of strikes.

The union said the ballot was taken to “bring about an acceptable resolution of the dispute on the pension issue” as staff at the DAA had been unable to get their employer to deal with the gaping deficit in the pension scheme it shares with Aer Lingus workers, the Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (IASS).