Originally Posted by
Enzo999
...any attempt by junior guys in increase their pay would almost certainly be met with horror by many within the BA community who have been very vocal on various forums that any attempt to improve their conditions would be blocked because it’s “robbing Peter to pay Paul”! So you won’t let us get improved conditions then shout at us when we pick at the crumbs you guys have left.
I’ll be honest and say I’m struggling with that perception, I think however it has been custom and practise from the company POV for a while to suggest that improvements in one area of T&Cs should be self funded by cuts in others, and as a community we are stuffed if we think that is the way we should proceed.....do you seriously think the senior p/middle ground/ should forgo any improvement in T&Cs in order to fund improvements in T&Cs for the junior at a time when the company is making record profits?
As for “robbing Peter to pay Paul” the last time I literally saw that expression used was in a forum debate about the (dire) Maternity provision for female pilots, where one or two of our well meaning but IMHO naive colleagues suggested the community should forgo an element of next years pay rise in order to improve maternity benefits...again this was seriously being suggested at a time when the company is making over a billion in profits......
We need to be pressurising the company into divvying up some reward across the board for
everbodies hard work, not arguing that those on Fleet XXX should be subsiding those on Fleet YYY, or those with a seniority number of less than 2000 should be taking a smaller pay increase to top up the payrise of those with a bigger senority number...
and yes...I do agree with what was mentioned earlier, we at BA can be our own worse enemy...and the management know it.