Did this not all start with BA stating that it needed 140m in savings and producing a list where it felt they could be made?
Yes but at no point would they say why they had decided that £140 million had to come from IFCE alone, or why as a percentage we should have to save
more than other departments. If every dept had had to save the same percentage of their budget it would be easier to defend.
I accept that savings had to be made, I also accept that many other departments in Head Office/BA had already been decimated but I really feel that more progress would have been made if each front-line dept made proportionately the same amount of savings. There is nothing more guaranteed to upset people than a feeling of being treated unfairly.
I know the contributors on here are fond of saying that if only BASSA/Amicus had negotiated like BALPA none of this would have happened; the reality is that it was a different playing field from the start.
There will be no winner from this, there never is. I'm not sure UNITE even know what winning will look like; their aim is to show that every imposition will be resisted which is achievable. Is that worth losing 12 days pay for?
