Update
Tuesday, December 16th
ASL Airlines Ireland has confirms that the pilot strike due to take place tonight will not go ahead.
Notice for further action on Thursday of this week and other actions expected next week has also been withdrawn.
This follows several hours of constructive talks today at the Workplace Relations Commission between the airline and IALPA, the pilot union branch of the Forsa trade union.
ASL Airlines Ireland would like to thank the WRC for their immediate response to our request for intervention and for the facilitation of today’s talks.
ASL Airlines is pleased that today’s talks have led to the suspension of strike action and hopes that both parties can now move to substantive negotiations towards a full and final resolution in the New Year.
December 12th
ASL Airlines Ireland (ASLI) has requested the services of the Workplace Relation Commission (WRC), under the Industrial Relations Act, in the dispute which has led to strike notice being served on the airline.
Having engaged extensively with IALPA, the pilot branch of the Forsa trade union, ASLI believes that an impasse has been reached. Consequently, the airline hopes that conciliafion talks in the WRC is the most appropriate way to find a mutually acceptable solufion.
ASL Airlines Ireland has wriften to IALPA asking that they accept an invitafion to talks in the WRC, and to suspend their strike nofice to allow these talks to proceed to resolufion. ASL is willing to aftend talks at the earliest convenience of the WRC.
ASLI believes that negofiafions on a framework agreement took place in good faith between the airline ands IALPA, and that a solufion to the current impasse can be found with the assistance of the WRC.
The current impasse centres on ASLI’s desire to ensure that there is no commercial conflict of interest between negofiators for the pilots and the airline.
ASLI understands that this same issue has been successfully resolved previously between other airlines, IALPA and the Forsa Union.