CaptainProp
My question about your level of tiredness was just that: a question. I was interested to know if you felt more tired than before. Don't be so combatitive!
Yes you are right: we should turn down offers which are not good enough. But we didn't; it was accepted. My point was that a substantial number of BALPA members did not vote. I reasoned that it could have been disappointment with the offer. Who knows?
But the meat of my argument was that whether we have 5 members of BALPA or 1200 members, the same democratic process exists. We can accept or reject only that which is presented to us. On the last occasion we accepted it (that is to say a majority voted 'yes'). We simply cannot say whether an increased membership would have voted differently. And what reasoning exists to argue that increased membership would have improved the negociating skills of those representing us? The only additional weopon the CC would be armed with is industrial action. Whether our management would have feared this weopon is currently unknown; whether it would be used is also currenlty unknown.
For what it's worth, I signed up to give increased membeship a chance. But you can see from my argument why many would not.
FQ