Just to clarify. Ryanair appear to have appointed, cajoled, persuaded and otherwise "encouraged" pilot "representatives" at every base - except Dublin - to "engage" and "negotiate" with local management. (According to the REPA site one base even has a representative who is not based there!).
Interestingly, all these independent "negotiations" seem to have ended up with in and around the same package. This is truly amazing and shows that co-incidence is alive and well in Ryanair.
The Stansted package is even written to make it clear that there were several meetings and the entire sham exercise is clearly intended to have the mark of acceptability as something "directly negotiated by local pilot representatives".
The Dublin guys may well have got the correct end of the stick on this particular game. After all, nobody is going to argue about the outcome in other bases, are they? As a Ryanair look-alike said on the other Ryanair thread:
"Cause grief - and we'll do everything we can to make life so unbearable, you'll leave"
I think we get the message (which is what they want). Cue lots of people to talk about how generous Ryanair has been to give back the 3% they took last year and what a wonderful airline it is, full of nice, kind, cuddly management figures ever concerned about one's welfare.
Will this nonsense ever end??!!