DAA staff vote for cost improvement program
Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) staff at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports represented by union SIPTU voted this week to accept a cost reduction program which will save the Authority €40m per year. As a result of the agreement which was passed by a margin of 1,121 to 541 a total of 175 permanent and 100 temporary employees will be made redundant at the three airports and those remaining will be subjected to a pay freeze. Members of unions IMPACT and Mandate which represent smaller numbers of DAA staff have yet to vote on the propsal but it is anticiapted that they will also vote in favour of the proposals which were recommended by SIPTU to its members.