BA pilots 'prepared to strike'?

[M.Mouse]

When I joined BA over 20 years ago I thought that I might well apply for a management position, I really couldn't understand the cynicism I witnessed from longer serving pilots. A few short years observation and experience explains all.
I had employment before BA and, in fact, manged many people. While it is true to say that those with no responsibility to pay the company bills often have a simplistic and unrealistic view of what a company should do or be doing I have to say that, with one or two exceptions, senior BA management, and especially BA Flight Ops management, are some of the worst people managers and nastiest individuals I have ever met and have a primary interest of feathering their own nests and climbing the very political greasy pole to high level management.
The Flight Ops management universally have virtually no respect from any BA pilot. I would not apply for management because I could not fit in with the ethos prevalent within that structure. Most of the (few) decent managers are in the lower echelons of the training department.
Following the BALPA members meetings I am prepared to accept compromise but I am not prepared to see my already earned retirement benefits decimated while at the same time seeing managers such as the Director of Flight Crew walking off with bonuses such as his most recent which was just short of £350,000! The last company financial report even went so far as stating the reason why bonuses had been increased by between 150 and 200% was to avoid the (then) government pension CAP!
So while managers are happily trousering large sums for slashing costs (usually by decimating the front end operation to the point it barely functions, buses when on a remote stand anybody?) they want to screw my retirement when it has been proven by highly qualified advisers employed by BALPA that, while changes are needed, the company is seeking to use the excuse of the lamentable, Brown inspired, pensions situation in the UK to make massive savings at the expense of my and my family's, contractually agreed and earned, future.
I am moderate, I am 52, I will strike and if the company folds I will sweep the streets before I let the short term, incompetent, robbers walk off with my future. If I cannot have it then neither can they.
BALPA have done a sterling job to date and if they ask us to strike be under no illusions it will be almost solid such is the level of frustration, anger and determination.

And Mitty demonstrates his ignorance of the matter because to close the fund actually would actually cost many times that of properly funding it under the BALPA and other unions proposals. For a fund to close it has to be fully funded.