Carnage Matey sayeth:
"Well my mole at Waterside tells me the vast majority of staff there don't really understand the implications of the proposals or of the strength of feeling amongst the pilot community. No change from the usual form there then.
I'm sure the company believe that some of the unions are on-side, the GMB being a prime example. Unfortunately for them you can have as many bean-counters, pen-pushers, latte-sippers and wildcat strikers as you like on-side, until they can fly a plane the company is going nowhere without the pilots."
Actually, I think a lot of non-flying staff do understand and it's an uphill struggle to get the message about the full implications across. The company does not like the unions putting across the real calculations and has, shall we say, not been helpful...
When you have large numbers of staff on performance pay, totally dependent of the grace & favour of management for progression and pay rises, there's an understandable reluctance to rock the boat too much.
Mark.