Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed)

Mr. Eddie Wilson:

I do not agree with how the Deputy has put that point across. I am not going to comment in detail on the court case that is ongoing. Needless to say, it is about how the ballot was actually conducted. Any worker would want ballots to be held in a proper way and that is the subject of these proceedings. The Deputy seems to be out of touch with what is happening in our relationships with unions. It may have escaped her notice that we have had an engagement with the Fórsa union here in Ireland. Our pilots and cabin crew have recognised the seriousness of the situation and have taken pay cuts of up to 20%. These will be fully restored over four years and this is in the programme because people recognise that here is a great way to preserve jobs until this industry recovers. We have done that throughout Europe with the-----

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