@Dan Winterland, well said
@no slot, let me explain you something very basic. AER LINGUS recognises the union. Ryanair DOES NOT recognise any union. Most of the Ryanair slaves have no proper working contract established by Ryanair itself, they have an hilarous crappy contract from Gibraltar, with no benefit and this gives Ryanair all right to fire anyone anytime with no explanation whatsoever.
So continue dreaming with your IALPA, you will get NOTHING, just more vaseline and this it what you and your colleagues deserve.
By the way, look at Aer Lingus itself. It is a bad flag carrier transformed into low cost ****.