Well holy croke.

Siptu, a message for ye. stop messing with other peoples lives… If ye think yer demands are justified, bring them to the table, negotiate with the other side.. Don’t get us involved…I do not support ye and want nothing to do with yer repeated cries of wolf

SIPTU were quite nice with their goodbye waves to all the ex Aer Lingus employees fecked out on their ear when SR Technics was shut down.

Mind you I started work in Aer Lingus in 1978 and after one month I was out on strike for 2 months. At Least some things never change.

Union mentality. They would rather the whole ship sinks than for one or two to be thrown overboard to keep it afloat.

While in the process planning their new tower HQ in the city center to sit their fat arses in..

While SIPTU is absolutely nuts. A Ryanair take-over for Aer Lingus is not something that should be welcomed. Ryanair will cut over 80% of Aer Lingus routes (main airports). That includes selling all London-Heathrow slots and abandoning long-haul routes. They have made this very clear and are using it to persuade the EU to let them buy Aer Lingus. They claim other airlines will serve the routes, they have all stated not interested. Ryanair owning the national airline of Ireland doesn’t sound so good. They won’t exactly impress visitors and we won’t have a full-service Irish airline anymore. I find it insane that O’Leary was against T2. He wanted to build a low-cost facility; in other words a piece of crap. Dublin Airport is the first thing visitors see; the airport already looks like it’s from a third-world country as it is. Other European airports with half the passenger numbers of Dublin have 2 minimum terminals at least. Aer Lingus won’t exist if Ryanair buys it, even if it has the name Aer Lingus is on the plane; it’ll be just another Ryanair. I would not like Dublin Airport/Aer Lingus to be made to look even more inferior to airlines like British Airways, Virgin, Lufthansa, Air France-KLM, and their airports.

UNIONS: Utterly Nonsensical Idiots Nattering Shite

Guys before you shoot off your comments, bear in mind that if you had contributed to a company pension scheme without choice as it’s part of your contract, and paid the equivalent of two days pay per month and your employer (being profitable with tens of millions in the bank) told you it was being wiped out? Would you take it lying down or would you retaliate?

SIPTU just trying to convince its members in the public service they haven’t gone soft whilst letting those they represent in the private sector go to the wall. SIPTU are in serious financial difficulties but will still somehow get their new HQ built whilst the new children’s hospital (badly needed) gets turned down. This strike notice is just sabre rattling. They can’t sustain a prolonged strike. They have feck all money.

Oh jaysus, here comes the “we love O’Leary” bandwagon, can’t stand SIPTU but despise him even more! Goodnight all.

I’d love to see Ryanair get Aer Lingus purely to see how Mick O’Leary would take on the unions.

Come on O’Leary. Buy Aer Lingus and give SIPTU a solid kick in the proverbials!!

Workers in both DAA and Aer Lingus were given no choice but to join pension scheme it was a condition of employment and now having paid massive amounts into the scheme over the years they face the possibility of the collapse of the scheme due to underfunding by both companies and the former SRT which got off scot free and dumped its workforce the unions have exhausted all other avenues to resolve issue and have no other choice and have made this decision on a democratic vote of all members .

The feckers better not interfere with my trip to Oktoberfest or there’ll be hell to pay !

A few of he customers in the pub where I work are going to The USA for Christmass,Lets hope the strike is over by then.Ps They dont fly with that arrogant O Leary.

Another ‘fact’ by Frank, based on what he heard in the pub

The only thing Maggie Thatcher did right – took on the unions and WON !

When is strike due to happen?