Ron, Oh dear!
If you misread my first post please don't take it out on me. The purpose, as is clear to most people, was to alert members to the fact that a resoulution to the endless rumours and mis/dis information flying around was about to be published. Most regarded this a useful and positive advance.
Again, had you read the info given you'd see that BALPA were passing on the report fron a top city firm of Tax Consultants, so the info is as far removed from "general advise" (sic) as is possible. It is, in fact, as sound Professional guidance as you will find, and clearly far more reliable than vague suggestions from unaccredited individuals that they may, or may not have found a loophole, further information either way upon payment of lots of money.
I have no idea why you think this has anything to do with easyjet, this is a Go matter, as is plainly obvious if you look at the title of this thread...
As it involves most employees of that company neither is it a minority issue, quite the opposite. Is BALPA's interest in EJ's 2004 Ts & Cs seen as "devoting scarce resources on minority issues "(ie just easyjet) to members employed by BA, or any other airline? Hardly, I don't think so.
Ron, you flatter yourself, I have no idea who you are. All I set out to do was to alert those affected that a definitive answer was available to an important matter, and had been thankful to our association that it had, for once, done something useful to a lot of members. I'm very sorry you chose to belittle that achievement and I cannot understand why. However if you want to continue your rant on a private message, fine.
Meantime. I'll continue to support BALPA wherever it makes progress for it's members, even in the face of the begrudgers who cannot bear to acknowledge their all too infrequent achievements (however small) when they do occur. I'll also holler when they let us down, but for God's sake, lets all be big enough to admit the small successes, even if we didn't personally benefit from them...