The Irish economy, and the Irish aviation industry have been in meltdown for the last couple of years. To think the average ATCO package is €160,000 is unbelievable. Have they taken (like everybody else has) any salary reductions in recent times? (10% + has been the norm). Looking for a 6% rise in the current economic climate beggars belief. Do they care about jeopardising jobs in an already struggling Irish aviation business? Do they care about the damage they are doing to Ireland's faltering international reputation? Are these the same people that struggled to achieve anywhere near international standards on single runway movements at DUB during peak times? There are very few flight deck crew on this sort of renumeration.
There is a time and a place for everything, as a group of people you have got this completley wrong, there are industrial mechanisms in place for dispute resolution, why not follow them. Get real, or the government should adopt a Reagan type solution.