Following the widely covered news on Friday that Aer Lingus is to initiate redundancies at the airline, the Irish Examiner publishes a letter by Angela Moran in Clonmore responding to the company's withdrawal of an agreement as our Cabin Crew branch commenced a ballot: "Aer Lingus appears intent on tearing up the industrial relations practices developed over decades and contributed significantly to the company’s success...Aer Lingus has clearly taken this action believing that the unions have no leverage and that industrial action would serve no purpose whilst their planes are grounded. However, if workers feel they have nothing to lose they will act. There is nothing quite like a woman scorned, never mind 1,000." Read Angela's full letter here.

In yesterday's Sindo Fearghal O'Connor published a number of articles about what's happening at the airline, focusing on the contrast between terms offered to pilots and those withdrawn from cabin crew last week and said unions had been 'outmaneuvered' by the company. In the Business Post Barry Whyte reports that the parent company, IAG, might have to be dismantled in order to get state support for individual airlines like Aer Lingus and British Airways.

The Government has announced the membership of the new independent Anti-Racism Committee, which has been established to draw up a new Action Plan Against Racism for Ireland. ICTU general secretary Patricia King has been appointed to the committee, which includes Fórsa magazine contributor Úna-Minh Kavanagh and human rights defender Dr. Sindy Joyce. In the Irish Times Chris Johns asks: "Consciously or unconsciously are we just hiring people like us?" and says inequality, in all its forms, is everyone’s responsibility.

Elsewhere, Lorraine Courtney writes in the Indo about universal basic income and Martin Wall writes about the state's temporary takeover of private hospitals, an arrangement which is to end next week.

Your Zen this morning unearths a YouTube creation from nine years ago which one of my kids alerted me to at the weekend. It uses the magic of the Internet to create a beguiling duet between LCD Soundsytem and the late, great Miles Davis: New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down.

Have a good week.