Fwd: Strike Vote Threatens Dublin Airport Chaos

--- Colleen Turner <colleenturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 00:00:20 -0800 (PST)
> From: Colleen Turner <colleenturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Strike Vote Threatens Dublin Airport Chaos
> To: airport@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Strike Vote Threatens Dublin Airport Chaos
> Belfast Telegraph, UK
> 
> 10 January 2004 
> 
> 
> FLIGHTS out of Dublin Airport could face disruption
> within two weeks after trade unions voted for
> industrial action last night.
> 
> Around 250 members of SIPTU, the country's largest
> union, mandated their leaders to prepare a campaign
> of
> strike action to disrupt Ireland's presidency of the
> EU.
> 
> The threatened industrial action is the latest move
> in
> a campaign of resistance to government plans to
> break
> up the state-owned operator of Ireland's three main
> airports, Aer Rianta.
> 
> The unions have reacted furiously to Transport
> Minister Seamus Brennan's intention to split the
> body
> into three separate companies at Dublin, Shannon and
> Cork airports.
> 
> Aer Rianta worker director Peter Dunne said the
> proposed action could disrupt foreign dignitaries
> arriving for a major EU meeting on January 22 and
> 23.
> 
> The dispute is the latest threat to paralyse the
> country's transport system after bus and rail unions
> threatened industrial action over plans to break up
> the state-owned bus and rail operator, CIE.
> 
> 
> 

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