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Hi, first post, and let me first make out, I'm not attacking anyone personaly, I'm purly making my point of view.
Surly doesn't everything link together. BA want (and depending on how you see it ,need) new aircrafts, that costs lots and lots of money. But that would be diverting money from your pension right ?
BA needed the new club world, and again cost money, and again, you could say that was taking money away from the pension problems.
So, you need money for your pensions, but BA need to pay for the NCW, new aircrafts, all the other costs, and the debt. But when you threaten to strike, you take bookings away, that means BA loose money. Your penions won't exaclty be too bad even with this change, your wages won't be too bad and you are still amoung the highest paid people in the airline (I'm refering to Captains)
One question, why should you get special treatment ?, other jobs have had their pensions and wages changed, why should only you get special treatment ? If BA offered to keep your pensions and retirement age the same, but everyone else had to sacrafise, would you prepare to strike becuase they have to make a sacrafise ?, saddly, I don't think so. It seems like a 'me me me' aproach. If the SM's were protesting for a better pension like you, you'd most likely be raising hell.
You complain about these 'high paid and greedy managers' and yet, I know that pilots are higher paid than most SM's that you refer to. Infact, when there were MG and SM cuts, there was a notice of Q and A's, and one of the questions was 'can pilot managers go back to being a pilot if they are laid off', and the answer was YES. No other departments got that option.
Eveyone wants to make themselves out as the poor guy, or the baddly treated guy. If you love the airline as much as you do, why don't you make the sacrafise and work untill 60, everyone else has to, so why not you ? Would you rather have a cut pension and a job, or force BA under ?
Wrightbrothers