SlowDescent,
If you're daft enough to work for this bunch of thieves without being to prepared to protect what you signed up for (albeit what you signed up with BARP is a little different to what I signed up for), then you'll deserve everything you get I'm afraid.
Just think what will happen to the payscales if this goes through? Not sure how old you are but if you ever think you'll get to pay point 24, there's unlikely to be one by that time.
Think about the bigger picture.