Brinksmanship
Let management be as tough as they want....
We Don't have to do overtime and they cannot touch us for that. It's only Feb and airports are closed and flights are delayed, imagine what May, June and July will bring...the egg will be all over mangements face and they will have to back down in the end.
Management can recruit 1000 scp's in the morning it doesn't matter because they dont have the staff available to train 10 let alone 36 or any other number.
This is the big test of our mettle here, we must be very careful what we do next. We can only return to ops normal if all of our demands are met.
We must not accept a lucrative OT deal UNTIL all the other demands are met. If we do, mangement will portray us as moneygrabbers and will use that against us in any other dispute.
I suggest also that the united front presented by staff (long may it continue) is the biggest worry for mangement and that if the Union want to capitalise on that they must LISTEN to us from now on. After all we have been complaining to the Union as well as management for years and when we take matters into our own hands ......well you know.
the SIPTU Pres. said on the RTE news that his union would not even enter preliminary talks on a national wage agreement unless workers rights and conditions were safeguarded in law first. Wise Man.
To 10/28
If you hadn't already noticed this forum is about SUPPORTING each other in this dispute and clearly the majority of us agree with the controller who allowed that flight to land. If things get ugly later we may need the support of the crew and passengers of that flight.
If you want to slag off your colleagues go and join DFC