Originally Posted by
excrab
Chesty Morgan, why do you think that they haven’t achieved anything in pay negotiations ? I would guess that it’s because the membership is low and Jet2 are aware of that. If you’re happy to have a scheduling agreement that the company can ignore whenever it wants, to be given below RPI pay rises then that’s fine. Without a strong membership BALPA can’t achieve anything. Industrial action is any union’s “nuclear deterrent” no one want’s to use it but everyone knows it’s there in the background. But it only exists if there is a high enough percentage of members to make it effective. It’s all very well to say BALPA don’t achieve anything at Jet2 so I’m not going to join, but any union can only ever be as strong as its membership.
As far as I know they have. And I'm sure Balpa do achieve things at Jet2.
I wasn't talking about Balpa at Jet2. The airline is irrelevant. However, it was an airline with large Balpa membership and the cost of that membership far outweighed the 3 years of pay "rise" they managed to "negotiate". Just pointing it out to balance the fawning sycophancy of Balpa around here.
The best pay rise Balpa achieved in my 15 years of membership was when they failed to renew my membership through total incompetence.
It may also surprise you to find out that the Balpa negotiated scheduling agreement at a previous airline included the option for the company to suspended said scheduling agreement if and when they needed to. I imagine there is a similar clause in all scheduling agreements.