28th Aug 2018 11:12
LONDON (Alliance News) - Budget airline Ryanair Holdings PLC on Tuesday said Italian pilots have voted "overwhelmingly" in favour of a new collective labour agreement.
The CLA was agreed by Ryanair and the Italian Airline Pilots Association earlier in August.
This comes after Irish trade union FORSA reached an agreement with Ryanair last Thursday, with Irish pilots set to vote on the deal shortly.
Ryanair Chief People Officer Eddie Wilson said: "We welcome this first CLA with our Italian pilots and hope it will be shortly followed by a similar agreement covering our Irish pilots. We have invited our UK, German and Spanish unions to meet with us in the coming days so we can negotiate and hopefully agree similar pilot CLAs in these other larger markets.
"These agreements demonstrate the real progress being made by Ryanair in its negotiations with its pilots and their unions across different EU markets."
Ryanair shares were 3.0% higher Tuesday at EUR14.30 apiece.
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