The National Implementation Body is to hold talks between management and unions involved in the Aer Lingus dispute tomorrow.
Earlier today, some 125 Aer Lingus staff walked out of a meeting with management in protest at the company's plans for €20 million in cutbacks.
A Siptu spokesman
Chief executive Dermot Mannion had planned a series of meetings with staff at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports to discuss the planned cutbacks.
His first meeting at Dublin airport this morning was disrupted when all 125 staff attendees walked out in protest. An Aer Lingus spokeswoman said today's other meetings had all gone ahead and that meetings with staff in Cork and Shannon would also go ahead.
Siptu, the union that represents most Aer Lingus staff said it was not aware that staff were planning to walk out.
A statement said: "We understand that a large number of employees walked out of the first meeting held at Dublin airport this morning in protest at the programme and the threat to suspend staff. While Siptu fully understands the feeling on the ground among employees, some media reports have suggested that these were negotiating meetings and that union representatives walked out of them. This is not the case," it concluded.
Siptu has served notice of four-hour rolling stoppages next Tuesday and Friday in protest at the company's intention to press ahead with the plan without agreement.
Yesterday, Siptu applied to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions for all-out action. In the event Ictu accepts the application from Siptu, then all other unions at the airline would join the pickets despite management threatening to suspend staff who took part in industrial action.
Aer Lingus blames Siptu for failing to engage in negotiations over the cost-cutting plan that management says is needed for the company to remain viable.
More than 20,000 passengers are likely to be affected by the stoppages at Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports.