Trade union representatives at Aer Lingus are meeting to discuss the company’s announcement that it will unilaterally implement a controversial €10 million cost-cutting plan at the airline.
Aer Lingus wrote to Siptu last night to inform the union it will implement the cost-cutting and work practice reform plan for staff in most of its ground operation areas over the coming weeks.
The airline said that it will implement more flexible working arrangements in all of its ground operations areas, except aircraft loading, between now and the end of June.
Siptu members at Aer Lingus have twice rejected the plan.
About 60 per cent of Siptu members actually voted to accept the changes in the most recent ballot last month. However, under a union rule at Aer Lingus, because the measures were not supported by all the main sections of the workforce in the ground operations area, the deal fell.