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Fri 07 Jul 2010Aer Lingus strike vote could cause travel disruption
AER LINGUS passengers face possible disruption from next month because of a row between management and cabin crew over the implementation of the company’s controversial €97 million cost-saving plan.
The trade union Impact, which represents cabin crew at the airline, yesterday said it was to ballot members for industrial action as part of an ongoing dispute over revised working hours. Under the terms of the cost-containment plan, which was agreed last March, flight time for cabin crew was to be increased to 850 hours per year.
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