{"id":10577,"date":"2016-11-14T16:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=10577"},"modified":"2016-11-14T16:48:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:48:17","slug":"pilot-strike-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=10577","title":{"rendered":"Pilot strike looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Unite today (November 14) announced that pilots at the Dublin-based airline CityJet are set to strike before Christmas.\u00c2\u00a0 The vast majority &#8212; 82 per cent of pilots &#8212; represented by the union voted to escalate the limited industrial action commenced in September on foot of the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s refusal to allow the WRC to refer the issues in dispute to the Labour Court.\u00c2\u00a0 Strike dates have yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn addition to City Jet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ongoing pay issues and refusal to allow the WRC\u00c2\u00a0to refer those issues to the Labour Court \u00e2\u20ac\u201c notwithstanding an agreement concluded between Unite and CityJet obliging them to attend the Labour Court \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the company is compounding that refusal by threatening to terminate their agreement with Unite in respect of pilot representation,&#8221; said Unite regional officer Willie Quigley.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a denial of our members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 right to collective representation by the union of their choice,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOther issues in dispute range from CityJet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s refusal to adequately compensate pilots who are being moved to the Amsterdam base to the imposition of \u00e2\u20ac\u0098Bond Payments\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to secure a job with the company.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThe resolution of this dispute is in CityJet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hands,&#8221; Quigley went on to say. &#8220;If they want to avoid being grounded before Christmas, they must agree to our dispute being referred to the Labour Court, and withdraw their threat to terminate the agreement between Unite and the company.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unite today (November 14) announced that pilots at the Dublin-based airline CityJet are set to strike before Christmas.\u00c2\u00a0 The vast majority &#8212; 82 per cent of pilots &#8212; represented by the union voted to escalate the limited industrial action commenced in September on foot of the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s refusal to allow the WRC to refer the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[125,37,629,88],"wps_subtitle":"Pilots may ground CityJet before Christmas","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10578,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577\/revisions\/10578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}