the heavy heavy:
and just how weak a DEP they can get the trainers to accept
Well my friend - our trainers accepted you at some point, be it as a DEP or CEP.
.... but I see you're point, really I do - Why should such an accomplished and talented individual as yourself concern his/her self with the terms new riff raff are joining on? Sure most of them are foreign anyway and don't even speak the Queen's English.
Thankfully YOU are a minority in BA. Otherwise I dread to think of how bad it would be to work here.....
Don't forget, the pensions issue is a very devisive one. You are playing into management's hands just as much as any BARPer who dosen't wish to support you. Maybe if you were a little more inclusive, and maybe if BALPA had any balls we wouldn't be in this fine mess in the first place.....