Paul Murphy warns DAA outsourcing threatens craft workers' jobs
Paul Murphy criticised DAA management's pandemic-era attacks on workers and warned craft workers face wholesale outsourcing of their roles. He said craft workers rejected the 'new ways of working', have voted for industrial action and urged government intervention through industrial relations bodies.
DAA changes and airport disruption
Murphy said DAA management took advantage of the pandemic to ram through a series of attacks undermining workers' terms and conditions. He pointed to the so-called new ways of working and said their consequences were evident in massive queues at security in Dublin airport.
Outsourcing of craft roles
He warned that the craft workers who rejected the new ways of working now have all of their jobs advertised as outsourced. Murphy described this as an incredible attack on workers in a semi-state company.
Industrial action and workers' response
Murphy reported that the craft workers have overwhelmingly voted for industrial action and are prepared to take action to defend their jobs and terms and conditions.
Government options to intervene
A minister replied that the Government can intervene in an industrial relations dispute through the Workplace Relations Commission or the Labour Court. The minister said both offices in the department are available to the workers and the company if there is a willingness to engage.
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My colleague Deputy Barry earlier raised the horrific treatment by Aer Lingus of its workers, but unfortunately they're not the only group of workers within aviation facing severe attacks on their terms and conditions. DAA management took advantage of the pandemic to ram through a whole series of attacks and undermining of workers' terms and conditions. The consequence of the so-called new ways of working were evidently very clearly seen a couple of weeks ago when you had these massive queues at security in Dublin airport. Now the one group of workers who rejected the new ways of working document, the craft workers, are facing all of their jobs being outsourced. All of their jobs have been advertised now as being outsourced. It's an incredible attack on workers in a semi-state company. They have overwhelmingly voted correctly for industrial action, and they're prepared to take action to defend their jobs, to defend their terms and conditions. The question is whether the Government will intervene to defend these jobs. Tawna Shtiff. Thanks, Deputy. The mechanism by which the Government can intervene in an industrial relations dispute is through the Workplace Relations Commission or the Labour Court. Both offices in my department, both bodies, are available to the workers and to the company involved, if there is a willingness to engage. Thank you. Tawna Shtiff.
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