More than 7,300 people have signed their names in support of the online 'Save Shannon Airport' petition which calls upon the Irish government to establish a single semi-state authority for Shannon, Cork, and Dublin airports.
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Hovis Unite members on the picket line at the Belfast bakery fighting for a ten per cent pay rise ‘not the crumbs’ – they are on indefinite strike
NEARLY 130 workers are facing the sack at Shannon Airport while almost 200 others are to be laid off for three months without pay at Cork Airport, Aer Lingus announced on Tuesday.
Aer Lingus said it intends to permanently close its Shannon Airport cabin crew base where it employs 126 workers and also lay off 198 crew and ground staff in Cork Airport without pay from September to November this year.
The airline management confirmed its intention to proceed with mass sackings and lay-offs ahead of a meeting with trade union officials where it said that it intended to try to justify its plans by claiming that it has lost 103 million euros in the first three months of this year.