Airgirl. This is the company that has a collective binding agreement with its Dublin and Cork pilots. So if it has an agreement with them all then why do you think they decided to draft up new terms and conditions for the 150 or so new pilots that were recruited in the last year or so. Included within these new T&C's was the little matter of paying for your own A320 type rating as well as a higher number of hours before performance pay kicked in. At no time did the company go to the union and try and negotiate. Instead it just pulled out the new contract for the new joiners to sign when they got the handshake and welcome aboard speech at head office. This is just one of a myriad of other issues that the pilots are striking over.
Now surely if management were to be considered truthful then they wouldn't pull stunts like that now would they? But they do and as stated above they continually cherry pick what they want and change T&C's at will. Hence why the pilot body will not trust them as far as they can throw them.
Last edited by potkettleblack; 18th Aug 2007 at 10:54.