Originally Posted by
Talk Wrench
Just a quick reply,
Have the bosses at shannon realised that the masses, Licenced and unlicensed are leaving cos of the better money out there by contracting?
Earn 6000 plus euros a month by getting out to europe.
I did it.
TW
That's nothing new. I used to work there until about 6 years ago. During this time we joked that you had to be carefull at the turnstile at the site entrance, because the people leaving SAL would just walk over you. I myself quit over the measly salary there.
It is also to be blamed on SIPTU.
When SAL was almost bankrupt about 10 years ago, staff and management agreed on emergency austerity measures to save the jobs. Unfortunately the SIPTU negotiators didn't put a sunset clause into the agreement, so that the company profits could be checked after a few years and the salaries adjusted accordingly. So SAL, even when it was profitable again, continued to pay emergency salaries.
Also, when an agreement ran out in 2000, SIPTU left our own shop stewards more or less alone. The young shop stewards, realising their own inexperience in dealing with management, asked SIPTU to provide a lawyer and to provide support, but at this time SIPTU was not interested in the Irish aviation industry and did nothing to help our people in their negotiations.
The result was that most SAL employees, once they earned their licence, quit to work somewhere else.
I remember a day when half the avionics team on our line resigned on the same day, in the middle of a D-check, to start working at FLS Dublin.
Jan