When BMA / RMA'S were introduced at BA I was totally against it. But as I started to watch the biggest skiver's in our hangar copy job cards in to their PER books and have them stampped by LAE's who couldn't be bothered to read the entries, and then go on to get the pay rises for holding a BMA the were not even using I realised the person my protesr was hurting was my pocket. So I sold-out and got my self a BMA. In the begining what we could do was limited, but bit by bit the company (with-out consultion) allowed us to do more and more. Then the same LAE's that had stampped our books in the first place started to question what we were doing. I still disagreed with the whole scheme, so I took the cowards way out and applied for an office job. As much as I miss working on aircraft, my protests at change failed, so I got out.
Don't blame the technicians for wanting more pay, blame the system that allowed it to happen