Industrial relations and common sense

There is a big dispute going on at the moment between the management of Irish Ferries and the unions; Basically, Irish Ferries wants to replace expensive Irish workers with cheaper foreign agency workers to cut cost. Why? Because Irish Ferries will go bankrupt if they don't.

Irish Ferries' CEO wrote an interesting article about the matter today:
http://www.irishferries.ie/News/2005/05_11_29.shtml

Whether you agree with Irish Ferries or not is your own decision, but it's some battle signifying industrial relations in the 21st century with an open EU market.

Let's see what happens. For now it's highly amusing television, and well, I still take the plane before I board a ferry ever again :-)