I will be providing regular feedback during the dispute between IMPACT representing the ATCs and the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA).
Feel free at anytime to drop me an email or post a comment on any post I make.
Needless to say that I am very aggrieved that it has come to this:
The IAA have unilaterally taken it upon themselves to effectively rob ATCs and other employees of their hard fought conditions of employment, entitlements and salaries, whilst a valid agreement is in place without any attempt to negotiate with staff , or explain why they are doing this.
To blame the current economic conditions is at best delusional, to deliberately un-fund liabilities or increase them when cash flows were low was at best foolish. Why should the employees have to pay for gross miss-management? Why should these temporary funding issues have a 60+ year life-cycle?
Why can’t the IAA wait until the agreement is next negotiated to attempt to change our employment conditions, why is it so urgent now, when in essence the short term savings are negligible, but they have a massive long term effect on the employees without generating one cent of savings for the industry it serves or the community? It can be argued that this has a significant negative flow on the community at large.
Why is the IAA doing this? The 64M$$$ question.
Send me an email at any time, especially if you have a topic, rumour, fact or information that should be made public or any evidence or suspicion of blatant spin.
Firstly..good idea to get the staffs info out there
Secondly..This wont be just an atco dispute..it will include every member of staff and every union…need to point that out so that the iaa cant just point and say “ohh greedy atcos blah blah blah”..also need to point out that this is more about the attempt by the IAA to take unilateral illegal action against its employees…it is attempting to change the terms and conditions of employment without negotiation
this is not a dispute about money..its about the total disregard for its employees and total disregard for employment law BY the iaa