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SIPTU members at the Dublin Airport Authority outline priorities in Cost Recovery Programme negotiations

Date Released: 12 Jul 2009

SIPTU’s Civil Aviation Branch has called on the Dublin Airport Authority to give commitments that any Cost Recovery Programme will be implemented fairly across the organisation. It also called for the disbanding of the  Cork  and Shannon boards to avoid ‘triplication’ of administrative costs and proposed that, while Terminal 2 should be completed in  Dublin , it should not open until passenger growth makes it viable. 

Due to potentially differing objectives with the DAA over the Authority’s Cost Recovery Programme, the SIPTU Section Committee has unanimously agreed to pursue independent negotiations on the following basis: 

  • The construction of Terminal 2 should be completed.  However, as owners of the facility and as a consequence of the huge decrease in passenger flows predicted in the coming years, it would be economically and operationally imprudent to allow operations to commence.  Accordingly, we seek the management’s commitment to postpone the opening of Terminal 2 until such time as passenger growth is restored to the realistic feasibility levels that require a second terminal.
  • The DAA currently has three Boards. The triplication of executive functions is a financial and operational extravagance.  We call on the Authority to disband, with immediate effect, the  Cork  and Shannon Boards.     
  • We require, as requested on June 25, 2009, that the specific savings from the entire executive management team are committed to the Cost Recovery Programme. 
  • For our part, we will give active consideration to participating in the suspension of specific pay related employment contract issues.
  • We will also constructively engage at local level in the review of all aspects of current work systems.  Should the company wish to make alteration proposals, they will formally table same and any members potentially affected by the aforesaid proposals will ballot to accept or reject the proposals as per current agreements.
  • We are claiming a profit share scheme that will be based on Group profit after taxation.

The Union has written to the company today and has requested, inter alia, responses to the items contained in this statement.