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25/01/2011
Aer Lingus Dispute 'Costing €400k Daily'
The Aer Lingus roster dispute in the Irish Republic is costing the part state-owned airline some €400,000 per day for the hiring alternate aircraft and crews.
The airline is currently locked in a dispute with its cabin crew over the implementation of new rosters, which the union representing staff claim is in breach of an earlier agreement and makes a work life balance impossible.
Despite the impasse, Aer Lingus management said yesterday it was planning to operate a full flight schedule today using alternative planes and crews. Impact said that the company's contingency plan would be costing around €400,000 per day.
Some 140 members of cabin crew have been removed from the payroll by the airline for refusing to work the new shifts.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Impact union said they have asked the Data Protection Commissioner to investigate Aer Lingus after the company handed personal details, including mobile phone numbers, to a courier company it 'hired to deliver (alleged) threats' to its staff.
According to the spokesman, the union acted after a number of its members raised fears that personal information – including names, addresses, phone numbers and, in at least one case, the mobile phone number of a next of kin had been given to "un-vetted strangers". A number of cabin crew members have also made individual complaints.
The union spokesman said: "The cases include young women living alone, some in isolated locations. As if management threats to sack them weren't enough, some now fear for their personal safety.
"This apparent attempt to frighten cabin crew into submission and divide a unified group of professional colleagues has completely misjudged the mood of cabin crew and, if anything, will make it harder to find a solution to this problem.
"Cabin crew are absolutely solid in their support for one another and in their determination to protect their working conditions and a reasonable work-life balance."
The company said the new rosters are essential to give effect to a cost-saving plan which involves increasing flying hours for cabin crew to 850 a year.
The union says the new rosters are highly onerous and in breach of the cost-saving agreement.
(DW)
The airline is currently locked in a dispute with its cabin crew over the implementation of new rosters, which the union representing staff claim is in breach of an earlier agreement and makes a work life balance impossible.
Despite the impasse, Aer Lingus management said yesterday it was planning to operate a full flight schedule today using alternative planes and crews. Impact said that the company's contingency plan would be costing around €400,000 per day.
Some 140 members of cabin crew have been removed from the payroll by the airline for refusing to work the new shifts.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Impact union said they have asked the Data Protection Commissioner to investigate Aer Lingus after the company handed personal details, including mobile phone numbers, to a courier company it 'hired to deliver (alleged) threats' to its staff.
According to the spokesman, the union acted after a number of its members raised fears that personal information – including names, addresses, phone numbers and, in at least one case, the mobile phone number of a next of kin had been given to "un-vetted strangers". A number of cabin crew members have also made individual complaints.
The union spokesman said: "The cases include young women living alone, some in isolated locations. As if management threats to sack them weren't enough, some now fear for their personal safety.
"This apparent attempt to frighten cabin crew into submission and divide a unified group of professional colleagues has completely misjudged the mood of cabin crew and, if anything, will make it harder to find a solution to this problem.
"Cabin crew are absolutely solid in their support for one another and in their determination to protect their working conditions and a reasonable work-life balance."
The company said the new rosters are essential to give effect to a cost-saving plan which involves increasing flying hours for cabin crew to 850 a year.
The union says the new rosters are highly onerous and in breach of the cost-saving agreement.
(DW)
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