Having BALPA in place will present a proper consultation process between agreements opposed to the useless ERC model in place. You take it or
off type model.
All the LTC's should just say until the current situation is resolved we will not be line training or checking. Although this needs unity and BALPA gives that single voice.
As a previous poster put it perfectly "THE QUESTION IS WHETHER STICKING WITH THE STATUS QUO IS ANY BETTER THAN BEING UNIONISED."