Thursday, 15 November 2007 12:38
Around 125 Aer Lingus workers walked out of a meeting addressed by the company's Chief Executive Dermot Mannion this morning.
Mr Mannion was at the meeting to explain the company's cost cutting proposals.
It is understood that check-in and baggage handling staff from SIPTU walked out as soon as Mr Mannion began to speak.
AdvertisementYesterday, SIPTU applied to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to sanction an all-out picket at Aer Lingus.
This follows the threats by Aer Lingus management to suspend staff who refuse to give guarantees that they will not participate in planned industrial action on Tuesday and Friday of next week.
A SIPTU source also confirmed that individual staff have written to management telling them not to address any further communications about their contract to their homes and to deal with all matters relating to the contract through their union.
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