Ryanair cabin crew to produce a charter of workers’ demands

Ryanair cabin crew will next month meet to produce a workers’ charter, outlining essential criteria that the company must meet in order to make good on its claim to respect workers’ rights. Under the banner of Cabin Crew United, workers from across Europe and North Africa will come together at a summit in Dublin on […]


June 8, 2018

Ryanair Cabin Crew meet for the first time to demand fair treatment

In an unprecedented move, Ryanair cabin crew from across the airline’s network will come together for a summit to demand fair treatment from the company. (1) The summit will be organised by Cabin Crew United in Dublin on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 July. This will be the first time that Ryanair cabin crew will […]


May 27, 2018

Ryanair, you must play fair!

  The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) leadership have called for Ryanair to play fair and continue to honour the commitment they made on 15 December to recognise trade unions on behalf of all of their whole workforce, and to radically change their employment model to address long standing worker concerns. Speaking to the executive […]


April 23, 2018

Ryanair against right to strike

Ryanair workers organised by our ITF/ETF affiliated organisations are being called to replace striking workers in Portugal. The ITF/ETF fundamentally questions Ryanair’s attempt to replace striking workers. The deployment of workers to break a strike constitutes a serious attack on the freedom of association, a freedom that is protected under international law. Ryanair should instead, […]


March 30, 2018

Ryanair confirms it will recognise cabin crew unions

In a statement Ryanair said that as per their historic decision to recognise unions for the first time, which was announced last Friday, they will look to meet with other unions “in due course”. “Ryanair is moving to recognise unions, starting this week with meetings with Irish, German and Portuguese pilot unions. It will lead […]


December 19, 2017

Ryanair Recognizes Unions in Historic Shift to Avert Strike (bloomberg.com)

By Richard Weiss and Dara Doyle Carrier’s reversal came hours before first planned walkout Shares fall as analysts expect rising costs for Irish airline Ryanair Holdings Plc buckled under pressure from disgruntled pilots and agreed to recognize labor unions in an eleventh-hour move by Europe’s biggest budget airline to avert strikes threatening flight disruptions during […]


December 18, 2017

Q&A: What’s happening with the Ryanair strike? (.irishtimes.com)

Airline says in surprise move it will recognise trade unions in bid to head off strike action. By Martin Wall What has Ryanair announced? The airline said in a surprise move early on Friday that it would recognise trade unions in a bid to head off threatened strike action next week. A one-day stoppage by […]


‘We’ll play fair, Ryanair’ – global unions respond to airline’s recognition decision

The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), who represent workers in all the major players in Europe’s aviation industry, including Ryanair, have welcomed Ryanair’s statement today [15/12/2017] that it will change its “long standing policy of not recognising unions”– and have issued a challenge to the airline to play fair […]