Originally Posted by
Kiwi9
Has anyone seen the latest of BA? Im just worried that the company might take more drastic action and make a heap of redundancies and rehire on a completely new contract or get rid of people by fleet if no one is willing to come to the party for short term concessions.
Our CEA prevents either from happening. They could of course take it up with ERA, particularly Seniority, but that will cost both time and money. I agree, backing them into a corner would be ill-advisable, but as ALPA said in today's email, we're the only Unionised group (so far) that has agreed to a Salary reduction on top of Redundancies
and included Furlough into our CEA to reduce the immediate cost of those Redundancies.
Will they ask for a higher % Salary reduction for the next 3 months in accordance with the AFFA table? Or will they ask specific fleet/ranks to "voluntarily" take LWOP? Hard to say. As they can crew the (few) Widebodies with Capt's and FO's, perhaps they'll pressure the SO's (under fear of rendundancy) to accept 3 months LWOP. Time will tell I suppose, but if we accept Greg's email as written, he sees further redundancies as a last resort (as they too cost time and money before having any effect).