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Dublin Airport: Fight over wages deepens as staff refuse to withdraw industrial action threat

Siptu accuses DAA management of being ‘out of touch’ and ‘fundamentally disrespectful’ to workers impacted by pay issues

Dublin Airport: workers have said they have been persistently affected by issues around the correct payment of wages. Picture: Collins

Staff at Dublin Airport have refused to withdraw their threat of industrial action in a dispute with management over wage payments.

Correspondence seen by the Business Post shows a deepening of a row that went public last month after Siptu, the trade union that represents many workers at the airport, “declared no confidence in their management” and began preparations to ballot for industrial action.

In a letter sent earlier this week, Karen O’Loughlin, an organiser ...