Artificial Horizon
why did the pilot workforce vote to close it to new joiners??
To be very precise there wasn't a "vote" as such. BA set out their terms and conditions for new joiners that included the infamous DC scheme. This they were able to do as they had already closed NAPS to new joiners (company-wide, not just pilots).
BALPA put out a consultative document with four questions which was so badly worded (delibrately say some) that no clear consensus for action was possible. The figures suggested that only 17% approx would support action on behalf of you and the others yet to join so BALPA shied away from attacking BA.
(As an aside - far more than 17% have declared "I voted to strike" on the BA BALPA site)
Predictably we now have "A Scale" and "B Scale" pilots based on future pension benefits and it will not take long for the "B" army to grow in size...................