Sack Aer Lingus Cabin Crew

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I was just about to start a thread up about Aer Lingus and the ongoing dispute with their cabin crew . Only i'm in favour of the workers on this . They had voted in agreement to increasing their hrs to 850 from the present 800 as the company wanted , but had voted against the roster changes and rightly so says i .
It's a huge ask of your loyal staff to agree to daily changes in shift times . Imagine going into work at what ever time , only to be informed that your start time has been held back by 3 hrs . Your plans for after your days work are completely oblitterated . Child care etc would prove impossible for the majority of working mothers that are cabin crew .
Is this drastic measure by the company going to save it huge amounts of money each yr , Aer Lingus are slowly turning into Ryan Aer Lingus with their take it or else policy . If i was booked on one of their flights , i'd be ringing them up and cancelling and giving them an earfull . Bollox to that !

Well even with the increased hours this is not even bringing them into line with most other airlines and as regards the change in start times they wont just turn up for work but will be
notified at least 3 hrs prior to the start time. The child care thing is just blowing smoke as at
the moment there are plenty of child care providers that would be prepared to be flexible.
Its not as if they were a nine to five job already, and im sure they have already agreed with
child care that if they were delayed which can easily happen them with weather/miss slot etc
that the children wont be turfed out on the street. There was no prob with child care when they were getting an extra 12 hrs lay over time on trans atlantic flights, no rush home then