Mr Ree,
I can hardly believe what I'm reading. You claim that you have an intense interest in the T&Cs at easyJet, and yet display a profound ignorence of the whole situation.
paying money to BALPA would seem to be another way of ezy management getting me to reduce my salary.
And when exactley was your salary reduced? The last negotiation led to a four per cent increase in our salary. As you didn't like BALPA negotiating that for you, I suggest you return it and negotiate your own increase. Would you like to tell me where else you could the same salary as at easyJet. Note my question. There are higher paid pilots, but where could you apply to tommorow and get better paid or, if you're an FO, have a quicker path to command.
After every BALPA vote these past few years I have yet to meet anyone who voted yes.
I did, there's one.
To join BALPA costs a lot of money. A LOT. That's fine if the money buys the quality product. Sadly it doesn't. We keep hearing that the reps don't get paid. Hello!? What on earth are the subs going on then?
The reps are unpaid and represent us voluntarily. Do you dispute this?? Subs go on things like legal representation, maintaining an office, staff and so on. By the way, if you ever end up on the wrong end of a legal proceeding arriing from your work, who'll be paying YOUR bills?
If you don't like the quality of BALPAs representation, then your not joining and standing on the sidelines whinging achieves exactley nothing. Your JOINING and helping to increase the number of pilots represented INCREASES the negotiating position BALPA holds.
I take it you will be opting for random rostering as you obviously prefer this to both the 6/3 and 5/4/5/2 pattern BALPA "Manipulated" you into.