purr I am really dis-appointed with BASSA's stance on the industrial action issue. Saying that, I
won't be going into the BASSA office to cancel my membership. I have e-mailed them, and also written to them. And while I was at Compass yesterday (waiting.....waiting) went to see them and tell them how I was feeling. They also would have seen all the crew forums being posted on the BASSA forum pages (most of which were voicing their dis-approval).
I think that it is really important to be in a union, and to be honest BASSA was one of the reasons I joined BA in the first place! No way would I go to CC89.
Put it this way, if BA really tried to shaft the cabin crew community I would back BASSA to the bone in a second through participating in a
legal ballot, giving required notice etc etc. If I turned up at work one day and some of my collegues said "let's just get of the aircraft in sympathy for someone at XYZ company" I would tell them to f*ck off.
I just hope that BASSA have learned to not automatically blame BA for every problem we are faced with. And to perhaps not be so militant and sarcastic in their website posts. I think BASSA needs to remember
WE are the union, the union is not us .
I know, soppy stuff....but true. We have to tell the union how we want to be represented. BA and it's crews are a very different beast to what it was ten, or even five years ago and BASSA needs to move with the times a bit as well.