Flyer55,
Willy Walsh CANNOT change the way we in the NSP are paid as it is linked DIRECTLY to our contract of employment, and as such, only our BASSA reps or us voluntarily (through a ballot) can change that. If he wanted to effect any changes to this (or any of our other agreements) he would have to sack all of us (at the last count, approx. 12,000 mainline NSP crew) and employ us on a new contract. Not going to happen! Anyway, managements proposal of an Elapsed Hourly Rate was formally rejected at the BASSA branch meeting in October last year and BA formally accepted this in writing. EHR is dead in the water.
And also, the tax man has been and gone and new levels of taxation have been decided upon. There is none of this '...ongoing investigation...' that you mention. It's all done and dusted.
Anyway I'm surprised that you, Flyer55, aren't aware of all this information as you are always on the BASSA crew forum and must be in reciept of the last few issues of "BASSA News" where these issues have been explained and discussed at length.
Tut, tut!
