I have it on good authority that despite many years of great service to the airline industry the Directors of the IPA marched their General Manager 'Mike Baker' out of the IPA office last month. The IPA Directors have, I am told, made him sign a confidentiality agreement to say nothing..... A somewhat different story to what appears in the current issue of the IPA Skypointer magazine that states: "We are sorry to see him go and wish him well."

Mike is a great chap with great knowledge of the industry who helped me out big time a few years back - it saddens me greatly to see a union behave like this.

Perhaps the directors will allow Mike to tell us the truth?

Rod Bruce, the General Secretary also resigned last year after only a few months in the job as did his assistant!

Sinking ship syndrome me thinks.

If internal union politics aren't your thing................

You can always join BALPA ;)

Something to do with the new Gen Sec at the IPA by any chance?

Never mind 'you could always join BALPA' - you should join BALPA. The IPA have no prospect of achieving anything meaningful for any pilot in the UK - they merely represent the disaffected and disillusioned of DanAir, who years later cannot stop whining about it. They are people who will not take their responsibilities besides the BALPA members who actually get the job done on behalf of the freeloaders. No, sorry I stand corrected - they do provide a jolly fine blue lanyard that is so much nicer than that nasty black one those BALPA chaps wear.

Ah....... I feel so much better for that.

Another union bashing post then based on hearsay and politics!

What was that other thread about pilots uniting to improve Ts and Cs, blah, blah, blah......

By the way, is that THE Mike Baker, formerly of GB Airways?