Well excuse me Nimrod if I feel a little pissed off but having totalled my BALPA subs whilst in eJ it comes to well over £1300.
That's my money trying to improve our terms and conditions. In crew rooms when trying to convince people to join BALPA you get the same banal excuses over and over again.
"Toothless tiger", "only looks after the trainers", "do they actually do anything?" etc etc. They know full well that without BALPA our T&C's would have gone much further downhill. Yet they refuse to try and improve their lot and are more than happy for others to foot the bill. "If you guys go out on strike I'll join" (bit bl**dy late).
The BALPA you were in are not the BALPA you would be joining. BALPA is the umbrella organisation and the CC drives things forward.
I've been tempted to leave many times myself but have stuck with it in the vain hope that we gain some critical mass and improve our lot.
Anyway bring on paying for your own recurrent training, paying for your hotac, car parking etc etc. I can't wait
