Following a record turnout, SIPTU members at Dublin and Cork airports have voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action, including all out strike, to bring about an acceptable resolution of the dispute on the pension issue. Staff at the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) have been unsuccessfully seeking to have their employer deal with the significant deficit in the Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (IASS) for several years. Dermot O'Loughlin, SIPTU’s Pension Policy Advisor, said; “A total of 94% and 89% of the membership in two ballots voted in favour of taking industrial and strike action. This demonstrates that staff at the airports are angry, disillusioned and frustrated that an acceptable resolution has not been found to the pensions crisis. “Before proceeding further, we will now be moving to consult with those of our members who are not in the IASS scheme and indeed who have no proper pension provision at all. We will be seeking to ascertain their view as to how to best further their interests in relation to pensions. We will also be consulting with the other trade unions in the DAA group before proceeding with any type of action. “It is the view of the Pensions Committee that this situation has come about as a consequence of the intransigence and procrastination of the Trustees of the Scheme, the Regulatory Authority and the DAA which has forced the membership into this very serious position.”
SIPTU members at DAA vote for strike action over pensions
