The protest is relating to the suspension of employees and the introduction of new technology.
Of course the employer claims it's related to the pay dispute, but officially this strike is over the suspension without pay.
I don't think anyone is accusing them of putting lives at risk. Didn't exactly just stand up and walk out and leave planes flying around in the sky.
One more time.
(hint: I never mentioned why/why not they are striking).
If you are management and some of your workers (for whatever reason) stopped what they were doing and putting the lives of people at risk as you mention, would you not have suspended them?
I had a crack at it when I was 20/21 and there were something like 1600 going for 25 places. I got through the initial interview and onto the aptitude test which was extremely tough and I got through that to the last 50. I didn't get passed the next interview even though I had a 50/50 chance of making it. I was naive to the interview process and was quizzed on many items as random as how jet engines work.Its not a case of looking at a screen and concentrating. People seem to think that anyone can do the job if they are shown how. I am willing to bet that not one person that contributed to this thread would pass the recuitment process or even the vast majority of people on the site. It's not all about intelligence or ability. They have a rare skill set that is in demand.
Their pay and conditions are completely seperate to this anyway. I don't with what they are doing but I wouldn't belittle their work either. There have been numerous examples of ATC's being repsonsible for crashes and near misses. I have a stressful demanding job but nobody dies if I mess up (apart from me!)
Take everything! You make it sound like they work for low pay and have dreadful conditions.
That's the gig. The good pay, good benefits, good conditions and job for life should be the trade off.
If people in the public service sector don't like it they should move to the private sector.
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And if we didn't have the option to strike do you seriously think the Government wouldn't very quickly pull away any benefits, conditions and job security we have left????
Unlikely because they still have to attract employees. People are not forced to join the public sector or remain there for life. If the public sector ever became so unattractive compared to the private sector, people simply wouldn't work there.
Don't we have that alreadySo we'd have no public service, or one staffed only by people who couldn't get a job elsewhere?? Is that really what you want?
So we'd have no public service, or one staffed only by people who couldn't get a job elsewhere?? Is that really what you want?
If this escalates, what are the options for the Gov? I presume they could draft in the army and also get help from other EU states? Could someone operate the systems remotely with a local presence for non-technical work etc?
Surely there are contingency plans for a function like this?
Why? What's the contingency if every pilot stopped working? Or if all the ESB workers walked out on the job?
It's not just a case of getting numbers in and giving them a couple of hours training.
That's the gig. The good pay, good benefits, good conditions and job for life should be the trade off.
If people in the public service sector don't like it they should move to the private sector.
Why? What's the contingency if every pilot stopped working? Or if all the ESB workers walked out on the job?
It's not just a case of getting numbers in and giving them a couple of hours training.
I agree if everyone in the IAA stopped working or if everyone in the ESB stopped working, I'm just talking about the controllers. Are there contingency plans for this, such as agreements in place with the UK etc for something like Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity planning etc
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