SIPTU rejects calls to halt Aer Lingus Strike

Flight disruption back on the cards for Aer Lingus passengers at Shannon Cork and Dublin Airports next Monday.

SIPTU shop stewards are refusing to withdraw their notice of industrial action, in a row over the company’ s 748-million euro pension deficit.

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There was some hope that the action may be called off following the intervention of IBEC and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions at the weekend.

But SIPTU organiser Dermot O’Loughlin says Aer Lingus is seeking increases in productivity in return for plugging the pension deficit – and that is unacceptable to workers: