22 IAA Student ATCO's let go
On Thursday 31st July a whole class of student ATCO was let go by the Irish Aviation Authority.Instead of been told of which Irish station (Dublin,Cork,Shannon) they were about to be assigned to they got this hammer blow!The Iaa has reportedly spent 1.2 million euro on the students since they commenced training in October2002.
There are supposedly 6 contracts available to them for South Africa.The Iaa cbelieve it will be at least a year before they can recommence training for the remainder of the class(if ever they do).
The IAA has blamed a slow uptake in "voluntary early retirement" and that old one "SEPT 11".Also they claim to have only found out in the last 2 weeks that they are overstrength by approx 40!!!!!
Lets hope the union gets behind the guys.