Originally Posted by C172Navigator
What is wrong with selling a day off? I have done this, and will continue to do so - I appreciate the extra money. We live in a free country and shouldn't fall out just because one person chooses to do some over-time and another does not.
Your justification seems a little flimsy.
We'd all like the additional money.
Its not hard to evolve an argument (done many times before) as to why this is strategically a bad thing to do. But then your post betrays a lack of strategic thinking IMHO.
Most of us do it because we're feathering our own nest. Lets not kid ourselves here.
Originally Posted by C172Navigator
This whole Balpa thing is getting out of control, seems to me the objective now is to strike and cause the company harm, not achieve better conditions for Balpa members (and non members, like myself). These bull-boy tactics of Balpa and some of my militant colleagues is the main reason I dislike unions and the whole idea of a strike - why can't people see the harm it will cause. You complain about money/pensions/rostering (depending on the part of bmi you work in) but whatever the problems how can a strike achieve anything other than problems for the company and maybe cost us our jobs? I have bills to pay, a women to keep and a desire to further my career - sending bmi under through industrial action is short-sighted and wrong.
I presume you are a pilot, who like me, has invested, perhaps, six figures in your training and acquisition of a license?
The argument that anyone with this kind of vested financial interest in job security, would gamely plough towards a course of action which would jeopardise this, is hard to fathom.
Maybe its
you who is not thinking hard enough about the strategic consequences of
your actions?
Which of the unions demands is unreasonable?
As I understand, to those aspiring to LHS occupancy, the bmibaby management suggest reading "The Southwest Airlines Way"!
The irony.
No Herb Kelleher here - relational competency? Where?
Four MD's in four years? Room for cynicism?
Has MOL and his LOCO cohorts got one over this industry? We're working for >10% less in real terms than four years ago.
Who is subsidising who?
Is the greed at the bottom of the institutional ladder or the top?
Are you so sure the wool hasn't been pulled over your eyes?
A vote in favour of industrial action is hardly the same thing as industrial action.
What is the budgeted top line for 06/07 anyway? What about the bottom line?
Is there a war-chest for A330 purchases if the Transatlantic market de-regulates? How much is the sale of one LHR slot worth?
Where is SMB on the rich list this year?
So many unknowns....