Jim is on the money, the treatment and rhetoric has been disgusting. The atmospheric change started about 2 years ago and relations over the last year have nose dived.
There has been long discussion about the escalation of industrial action but due to managerial attitude at negotiations it was soon realised that strike had to be base 1.
There are measures in place to share the pain amongst those affected. It’s blatantly obvious that the company are not interested in improving their offer. By improvement i mean simply dropping their erasing of all previous agreements and long agreed T&C. This was only meant to be a pay negotiation but management want more. If it was simply the % mentioned above this would have been agreed weeks ago. The company are after a reset that would set off yet another race to the bottom and affect the entire industry.
The aircrew don’t want to strike, far from it. However they’ve been pushed into a corner and what we are seeing is the only option.
We all know there is profit in the contracts. They wouldn’t be signed if there wasn’t. But the blatant greed here is eye watering and if I were a Bristow client just now I’d be forensically auditing what services are contracted vs what’s being provided.