Colin Monkfish,
Cant agree with you more; the people that we work with on a day to day basis are fantastic and I could not hope to work with a better bunch, but as a collective group we are now being shafted, used and our intelligence insulted which is leading to management driving a coach and horses through our T&C’s on a regular basis. I have never been a union person but we now need BALPA representation to stop this rot.
The management will not care this time round because by the time people have mobilised themselves into finding better paid alternative employment the summer will be over and management will have scraped through another summer season declaring it a great success and thanking us all for our endeavours. Then next year the cycle will start again and we will all be complacent after a relatively quiet winter and guess what it will be sore arse time again.