Aer Lingus Pilots Strike: Hundreds of Flights Cancelled
By Rediff Money Desk, London Jun 26, 2024 15:31
Aer Lingus pilots have launched work-to-rule actions, leading to flight cancellations and disrupting travel plans. The strike is over pay and working conditions.
London, Jun 26 (AP) Aer Lingus pilots launched an industrial action on Wednesday, leading to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and tossing the travel plans of tens of thousands into disarray.
Pilots imposed 'work to rule' actions, refusing to work overtime, accept changes in set rosters or take out-of-hours management requests. An eight-hour strike is planned on Saturday.
The flag carrier of Ireland and its pilots have been locked in a bitter dispute over pay, with pilots seeking a pay increase of 24 per cent to keep pace with inflation since their last pay raise in 2019.
Aer Lingus has said it is willing to offer pay increases of 12.5 per cent or more if productivity and flexibility are discussed.
Ireland's prime minister, Simon Harris, said it is absolutely vital that a resolution is found.
My challenge to the parties now is to bring that engagement forward, rather than putting people through a prolonged period of agony and chaos, and then engaging in the end anyway, Harris said Tuesday. This dispute will be settled the same way every dispute is settled: compromise, engagement, sitting around a table. That's what needs to happen.
Pilots imposed 'work to rule' actions, refusing to work overtime, accept changes in set rosters or take out-of-hours management requests. An eight-hour strike is planned on Saturday.
The flag carrier of Ireland and its pilots have been locked in a bitter dispute over pay, with pilots seeking a pay increase of 24 per cent to keep pace with inflation since their last pay raise in 2019.
Aer Lingus has said it is willing to offer pay increases of 12.5 per cent or more if productivity and flexibility are discussed.
Ireland's prime minister, Simon Harris, said it is absolutely vital that a resolution is found.
My challenge to the parties now is to bring that engagement forward, rather than putting people through a prolonged period of agony and chaos, and then engaging in the end anyway, Harris said Tuesday. This dispute will be settled the same way every dispute is settled: compromise, engagement, sitting around a table. That's what needs to happen.
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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