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Just to get this into perspective.
All departments have been given cost savings measures. Some have been told how they are to achieve them, some not.
Flt Ops has been give a per capita saving well in excess of the IFS saving. Whilst this may be a smaller percentile loss of gross pay it still is in excess of IFS. Add to the mix that very few pilots are on the magical top wage layer. In fact we still have many Self Sponsored Pilots who would be very happy with an £1800 take home before and cost savings measures kick in. Any cuts will affect all personnel and all departments are affected.
Engineering has had manpower reductions. Possible redundancies in IM, overseas staff, call centres, Marketing, Sales, Check-in, customer services, managerial staff, tele-services, acquisitions, hedging services, ground handling, loading, allocations, baggage handling the list goes on. The push back drivers have been told they are to lose their department altogether and be merged with loading. That's after some of these guys have worked for years to get to their positions, a position which requires great skill and professionalism.
All of those departments plus smaller ones have been given their targets to meet and their pain to take. As far as I know they are all gearing up to shoulder their collective responsibility in the current climate.
Now, consider their annoyance when a vocal minority group from on department start crowing that they would rather see the company taken down, the company that we all work for, rather than take a cut in their, already acknowledged, over market forces terms and conditions.
I will leave you to think where the sympathy, from both other employees and the press, will be?
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