from: www.fxcentre.com/news.asp?1976138
Ryanair pilots' union fails to show
Monday, 14th January 2008 03.01pm
Aer Lingus pilots union has been forced to withdraw its labour claims against Ryanair after the IALPA/IMPACT unions failed to attend a scheduled hearing at the labour court today.
IALPA/IMPACT hoped to use the Industrial Relations Acts of 2001 and 2004 to show Ryanair was underpaying its Dublin pilots.
Ryanair, however, always maintained that the legislation did not apply to high pay multi-national companies such as itself. Ryanair won a Supreme Court case against IALPA/IMPACT last February
'It is time that the trade unions in Ireland recognised that they have no role to play in high pay multi-national companies like Ryanair,' Ryanair's Eddie Wilson said in a statement.
IMPACT's Michael Landers said the union saw the ruling 'as no more than a temporary set back'.