RARA9 -
a friend of mine in the company said that potential strike action is on the cards ? me being nosey wanted to see if this is the case ?
Our virgin mate in the pub last friday said big balpa recently shut down the individual company councils 'bulletin board' forum's that members regularly used to exchange
rants views and knowledge. Replaced by some useless disorganised twitter-type can-of-worms nonsense. He says posts can be removed by nameless mods, without trace or explanation, but its difficult to be sure when you can't find anything anyway.
Some half-baked reasons given but widely believed, especially by the BA members, that it was because the forums were being used to express public criticism of the NEC. No forums
= no criticism
= rosy garden. Management heaven.
As a result, angry members are resorting to private whatsapp groups to
vent their anger express their views.
He said it is difficult to know what is going on unless you are in a group but they tend to be one-fleet ponies. A bonus is - you can be in a group without being in balpa.
In his view, the upcoming rumpus at VS should include pay, intolerable scheduling and use of inexperienced second officer cruise pilots to fiddle the FTLs.
But a very long way off a strike ..... especially if you were around in 2011, or looking over the fence at BA in 2018.
LFH