The AOA GC assert that if the Company simply brought in CoS 07 unilaterally, they would be unable to represent New Joiners as they are not yet employed by the Company nor are they current AOA members.
Yet we are being asked to represent these same people by voting to allow the Company to bring in lesser CoS for them - our future colleagues and AOA members!
In my view, bearing in mind that the Company have employed New Joiners since 1999 on our current CoS, (CoS that include the provision for the employment of DEFOs), the Company cannot arbitrarily introduce new CoS simply because they do not wish to employ future Officers under the terms of our present contract.
I would ask whether life has got any better for A-Scalers since the introduction of B-Scales. Clearly they have not. It follows that life would not get any better for us if we were to allow the introduction of CoS 07 - in effect C-Scales.
We should not vote to allow the Company to introduce lesser CoS for New Joiners.