Not sure if anyone flagged the cabin crew settlement at Aer Lingus, Willie Walsh's previous employer:
Cabin crew at Irish airline Aer Lingus have voted 92 per cent in favour of the airline’s cost-cutting plan, dramatically reversing last month’s vote that rejected the same proposal by two to one.
After the cabin crew rejected the original €97 million (£86.6 million) cost-cutting plan, Aer Lingus management threatened to make all 1,300 of them redundant and immediately re-employ all but 230 on new contracts with reduced pay and new conditions. The 230 staff would have been made compulsorily redundant on statutory redundancy terms of two weeks pay per year of service.
The cabin crew, members of the Impact union, were the only group in the airline to reject the survival plan, despite their union recommending acceptance. The other four groups including pilots and ground handling staff accepted the plan, which includes 640 voluntary redundancies on six weeks’ pay per year of service, pay cuts of 5 to 10 per cent and new working conditions.
Bilateral talks at the Labour Relations Commission resulted in the cabin crew agreeing to re-ballot after receiving what it said were “deeper clarifications” on the plan. The airline said there had been no change to the original plan.
Aer Lingus welcomed the ballot result and said it will now implement the cost-cutting plan starting immediately with the pay cuts. The plan is designed to cut 7.5 per cent from the airline’s cost base.
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