Ryanair’s management has taken the controversial step of publishing the salary slips of striking cabin crew and pilots in a move aimed at showing its staff to be earning enviable salaries.
Unions representing workers in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and Germany met their Portuguese counterparts in April to discuss the low-cost labour policy adopted by Ryanair.
The company insists that its cabin crew members have Irish work contracts, thus enabling the company to avoid local labour rules and practices, according to the unions.
Disruption to European services has been evident today, including ten flights cancelled at Faro airport.
Ryanair has posted details on its website of the salaries of Captains from Ireland, the UK, Belgium, Germany and Portugal, showing the pilots were paid between €190,000 and €220,000-a-year.
The company also showed that cabin crew staff earned up to €40,000-a-year.
Cabin crew in Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Italy are on strike today, Wednesday June 25th and on Thursday, over working conditions and parity.
Ryanair claims the current strike has caused the cancellation of 600 flights, affecting 100,000 passengers and threatens to cut jobs if the strike continues to hit its income and profitability.
