BA plan could slash staff pensions by a third

[ShortfinalFred]

I must say Harvard Business School do a wonderful job - here we all are, at each other's throats whilst ALL management groups create the worst set of terms and conditions they can for their pilot employees. This is how they are TAUGHT to engineer outcomes, particularly through the use of a myriad of sub-companies and the creation of as many anomalies and unfairnesses as possible.

I think we would ALL do well to remember this as we air our personal grievances.

I see BALPA within companies as driven by the Company Councils and the membership's support to them. How can it be any other way with secondary action, i.e. support of one contracted group by another on a different contract being against the law? Would BALPA head office deny support to a CC that balloted for a strike over pension closure? Is that what you are saying happened, Captain Correlli? Or are you saying BA contracted members didn't ballot for a strike to support you, because if you are you are talking about the legally impossible.

Meanwhile, fortunate as I am to be in BA, our employer is setting about a reduction in my overall remuneration package of circa 40% if you factor in the productivity for no pay sought in bidline "changes". I am not going to accept this, and the membership wont accept this. I really dont care what the world thinks - we all saw the Daily Mail at the time of a previous strike ballot, (remember Mr Torr@de's article anyone - lies, spin and envy all rolled into one hate-laden package?). This is between our employer and ourselves and we have every right to fight it.

Meanwhile, BA is shambolic and demoralised to boot, whilst the subsidiaries like Cpt Correlli's employer are handed a poisoned chalice of excessive overhead and lousy people management. WW would do well to sort that out before setting out on a raid on our salaries THAT DIRECTLY ENRICHES HIMSELF. We should all try and stick together, and support our CC's to the hilt. I am certain BALPA is working for ALL our benefits. Heaven help us all without it.