For Baby the major gripes are:
1. Imposition of group pay award (although management insists group pay awards don't occur!) no negotiation - just go away we can't be bothered with you
2. Unilateral changes to the profit share scheme to the detriment of the pilots - this despite the fact that the profit share is defined in the 'Playground rules' and as such form part of our contract of employment
3. Lastly and most painfully, they screwed up our arrangement with the IR regarding tax position of sector pay. The CC requested no increase in sector pay during the 04/05 pay round to protect the advantageous tax position we enjoyed - did management listen and respect that? of course not and they imposed a 3.2% increase on sector pay. Result was that the IR decided to review the sector pay and generously decided we could now expect only £5 tax free per day provided we completed 3 or more sectors
Thus Baby pilots have actually experienced a reduction in take home pay thanks to management incompetence - about £2k for captains
The Baby CC have tried to negotiate with the Company over this issue but have been stone walled by management. Remember this is still the 04/05 pay round that has to be resolved, something that should have been completed in April 2005
Baby pilot's patience has been exhausted and frankly we're up for the fight, expect a good ballot result and some disruption in August.
Bash the Bish takes on a new meaning
And the stand up tables in the crew room is a *^+$ ing stupid idea
edited for incompetence with a calculator!