Well?? Do we have the commitment and the guts of our mainline colleagues? Evan's letter is an insult to the intelligence, doubtless we shall be told that any industrial action will result in Company Closure. The sheer nerve of the man saying BA cannot afford to pay the deficit, and that BACON has no cash reserves. Mainline bought us and immediately asset stripped us of our LHR slots, that's why we have no cash reserves!!!
However, this is about principle. The deficit was known about when they bought us, it is on the record that they promised to preserve our pension entitlements, and now this.
Please please please let us all act as one, please lets involve those not actually members of the Final Salary scheme - this is what BALPA is for, and what it's supposed to be about. If they don't make the right noises now, I shall be very very disappointed.
It would be nice to be able to link the mainline problems with our own; for the first time in my life I can now see why secondary picketing was so important. Enough is bl00dy enough, Evans needs to be sorted out, I bet HIS pension isn't being tampered ith. This pension is a contractual obligation, and Evans, Boy Hutch, Witts etc all need to understand there is a line in the sand RIGHT HERE!!!!!
