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Article: Cantillon
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- October 8, 2009
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Inside The World Of Business Industrial action likely as airline
plays same old tune
HERE WE go again with Aer Lingus. For the third time in as many
years, the airline wants staff to agree to a multimillion euro
restructuring plan. If they don't, management has warned that the
airline could eventually disappear off the radar.
Sound familiar? It should do. Former chief executive Willie Walsh
spoke in similar terms post-9/11 and his successor Dermot Mannion
went to the well twice looking for cuts of [euro]20 million and
[euro]100 million respectively from Aer Lingus staff.
This time around, the headline figure is [euro]97 million but the
cuts are deeper, with the airline wanting to let 676 ...