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AER LINGUS PILOTS will conclude voting later today on whether to accept a pay deal compromise put forward by the Labour Court.
The Labour Court recommendation of a 17.75% pay increase over a four-year period came after weeks of industrial action and hundreds of cancelled flights – this intervention came after IALPA threatened further industrial action could be taken.
Aer Lingus management has accepted the deal and the Irish Airline Pilots Association (IALPA) recommended that its members also accept the deal.
An electronic ballot opened last Thursday and this ballot will close this morning and a result is expected at around 11am.
IALPA initially voted to begin industrial action after rejecting a Labour Court recommendation that would have increased pay by 9.25% – the union had instead been seeking a pay increase of around 24%.
The first day of work-to-rule industrial action by IALPA members at Aer Lingus began on 26 June, and there was also all-out strike action over an eight-hour period on Saturday, 29 June.
Aer Lingus returned to a full service on Wednesday, 17 July ahead of the IALPA ballot on the 17.75% pay deal.
Despite initially seeking a 24% pay increase, IALPA president Mark Tighe last week described the 17.75% deal on the table as a win for pilots.
Tighe said: “While it’s not quite the inflation that we were discussing we’re looking at, two years from now, pilots will be 19.2% better off than they were – which is some ways towards inflation.”
“We’re recommending it because we believe it’s a deal that the pilots can hopefully accept.
“We’ve had a very successful time as a group of people, demonstrating our unity and strength together, and that’s vitally important moving forward.”
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Better than the collective bargaining that the govt agreed with the public service unions. The nurses should ask the pilots union to represent them.
@Eddie Garvey: Public sector pay rises look alright to me. Would love to have gotten them as would most private sector:
Jan 2019 by 1%
Sept 2019 by 1.75%
Jan 2020 up to €32k by 0.5%
Oct 2020 by 2%
Oct 2021 by 1%
Feb 2022 by 3%
Oct 2022 by 1%
Mar 2023 by 2%
Oct. 2023 by 1.5%
Jan 2024 by 2.25%
Jun 2024 by 1%
Oct 2024 by 1%
Mar 2025 by 2%
Oct 2025 by 1%
Feb 2026 by 1%
Jun 2026 by 1%
@another one? what’s going on is the semi state sec: Embargo is over, nothing stopping you applying for a PS job now, instead of whinging about it!
@Si Con: Nah I like the day in day out of my current job. Not whinging. Just stating facts! They’ve had a lot of increases despite what the OP says. Real mature reply!
@another one? Well the minimum wage went up by 29% in the same period, so most private sector jobs did do better. Anyone in the private sector not doing better than the increases got in the public sector needs to change jobs, even the min wage payed by the private sector beat the public sector.
@Eddie Garvey: And it’s gone up 48% since 2015 too! It stagnated for a few years after the crash and probably increased rapidly to catch up and for votes…… Aerlingus management would probably say otherwise ;-P
@another one? what’s going on is the semi state sec: Also bear in mind most of the 1%s have a €500 floor and 2% €1000 floor so it’s higher for lower paid Civil Servants, plus an increment every year.
@Mark Anthony Savage: and all annualised
P45s is the way to deal with such greed. It is corporate negligence to even allow a union in the door in the first place
@John D Doe: yeah damn those unions, always putting workers rights over corporate profits!
@John D Doe: Pilot shortage so all that’ll do is mean they do us make them have to recruit which will mean higher salaries.
Fair play to them. A union is only as determined as it’s members. Zero reward and recognition of productivity in alot of the public sector results in the routine acceptance of pathetic 1 and 2 percent offers. The fact alot of it’s workers don’t want productivity is even more of a concern. The place is packed with lazy workers happy to plod along and it does my head in.
the 200 grand they earn already isn’t enough, pure greed. It’s always the ones who have money that are never satisfied. Aer Lingus should give them F all
@qffaffaf affrafrfraf: Average Aer Lingus pilot salary is about €85k. Add on bonuses and you get €100-€110k. Nice salary, but a long way from your €200k.
@qffaffaf affrafrfraf: it’s a really responsible job – they deserve it.
I wonder if the deal is agreed, will IAG will decide to return to Aer Lingus the A321XLRs it took from them to give to Iberia? Just like the A350s, too.
Oh wait, they did give AL those twenty year old A330s they got off the back of a lorry in Qatar.
@Benny Colreavy: Good point. Some of the Aer Lingus 330s are absolute muck.
I wonder if Ryanair pilots would get away with it.
@Willie Marty: I’d guess we’re going to find out
With pension and pay quite a proportion will be on a package of over 300k with this deal. Not a bad days work and a job well done by their union by the looks of it.
The porsche garage will be busy with all the pilots orders!!
My god, what have you done to William ?
William …….
That would be taking the Mick if they don’t take it honestly, after all that and all the cancelled flights
@Dominic Leleu: I wonder would they take the Mick out of Michael O Leary.
Red bull gives you wing’s
No cencership on the journal. I notice comments re our gaa friend removed.
@John Flanagan: apologies to the journal. Wrong article opps
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