Because Sid, if we cave in on pensions due to lack of unity they know we won't have the balls to fight anything else. Our terms and conditions as we know them will be gone forever. Kiss goodbye to bidline.
I agree though BARP is crap. FWIW when i and many other NAPSers joined we too were on an inferior pension compared to our peers. The original APS was awesome! I felt slightly envious at the sums paid out but certainly not bitter that they didn't strike to get me onto APS.
Maybe one day in the distant future, son-of BARP will be even worse...hard to imagine though.
If you give your support to the fight i'm absoulutely certain BALPA will seek an improvement to BARP.