Workers at the three main Irish airports have voted to go on strike. SIPTU members at the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) are planning to walk off the job in a long-running row over pensions. The action could affect flights at Dublin and Cork.

The results of a vote of SIPTU staff at Aer Lingus will be announced tomorrow.

SIPTU members at the airports voted overwhelmingly, following a record turnout, to take the industrial action including all-out strike.

A total of 94% and 89% of the membership in two ballots voted in favour of the industrial and strike action proposals.

The union says this is to bring about "an acceptable resolution of the dispute on the pension issue".

Staff at the DAA have been seeking to have their employer deal with a deficit in the Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (IASS).

SIPTU Pension Policy Advisor, Dermot O'Loughlin, said "This demonstrates that staff at the airports are angry, disillusioned and frustrated that an acceptable resolution have not been found to the pensions crisis".

"Before proceeding further, we will now be moving to consult with those of our members who are not in the IASS scheme and indeed who have no proper pension provision at all. We will be seeking to ascertain their view as to how to best further their interests in relation to pensions" he added.

SIPTU say they will also be consulting with other trade unions in the DAA group before proceeding with any action.