Originally Posted by
Flightdisclose
Surely this points to it being a mistake to reject the proposal, and the union reps actually getting a fairly good offer given the current climate?
No, the current proposal was negotiated before the Iran war. Three items have been mixed with no need.
-Career restructure
-Professional standards
-Pay deal ( in fact this is not yet due)
By combining all in one, the proposal has been rejected where if it had been split in parts on wider timeline each item could have been voted on on their merit.
The honest thing to do now would be to park the pay deal until it is due. Separately vote on the career restructure. Then focus on why some behaviours end up on the front page of the Daily Mail.
Then when the pay deal is due negotiate this in a simple way as it has been done in the past.
Otherwise you continue to propose a rank asymmetric mediocre pay increment in exchange of other undesirable elements that some may been pressured to accept simply because of the poor timeline that got us here.