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“It's strategy isn't clear”
Perhaps true, however this is a problem with Management and has little to do with the people who work very hard for the company.
“it isn't making bucketfuls of cash”
Really. Very few people know the real state of bmi’s finances. There are many mechanisms for hiding a company’s true fiscal state and presenting a picture of woe. Ask any accountant worth his salt. The Company has always been financially in trouble and yet Sir M’s position in the Rich List keeps on rising.
“And what would you be striking for? An extra 1%?”
This in truth is perhaps the saddest part. Last year we got 0% and amended our T&C’s so that the company could use us much more productively.
In October, iaw our Agreement For Service, we submitted a pay claim which, instead of being discussed, was ignored. Four months later we are told that we will take 1.5%.
All we are asking for is a reasonable rise that would leave us roughly where we were 2 years ago, not trailblazing at the top of the T&C’s ladder in the industry.
“Please get real, and understand that strikes belong to the last century”
Along with treating the workforce with contempt, so perhaps it is quite fitting.
NOBODY wants a strike but if it is the only language management will listen to then it is our only option. It may be painful in the short term, or even terminal, but many people have put invested a lot of their lives in this company and would like to stay working for it, but only if it is worth working for. If we do nothing it won’t be.
Bearing in mind our CEO is paid a similar amount to the CEO of BA and had a pay rise on the basis that he should get the going rate of a CEO because the company should pay the going rate, perhaps we should be going for the same principle. UK airline+ airbus + LHR = BA!
“I would hope that no-one in BMI is foolish enough to strike.”
Foolish or just hacked off enough to do something about it. Again nobody wants to strike but it is the management who seem to want us to.