Guys
This has all been covered before on the BA LGW thread.
Superboy,
as someone who joined the Company just a little while ago from BMED you must have known all about the t&c's before you started? So why is it such a surprise that we are treated so differently. Would you have held out for other t&c's and risked losing everything. Do you really think the Company were going to offer us the same as WW LHR? They needed to save £13m so that was never going to happen.
I know the unions at LGW do their very best for us all. Yes they
appear to give in a bit more easily but trust me they don't. As someone who has seen plenty of discussions from both sides of the coin, the Company have us over a barrel and they know it.
Put yourself in the shoes of a LGWWW crew member what would you have done when faced with this dilemma - do I take a 40/50% pay cut and stay where I really love to be or do I keep my money and work somewhere where I choosen not to in the past? WWLGW didn't want an easy way into WWLHR they already had it. It was just a case of waiting for those who had joined recently, however for most they already had the opportunity to go but choose not to.
Please see my note about the GVA hotel on the other thread. Did you do a report about how noisy the hotel was?
"2. LGW EF have been gagging for long haul and jumped at the first chance, signed the first piece of paper that came along, even though the conditions are ABSOLUTELY appalling compare to that of LHR."
That statement just gets right on my breasts
Try having been in the company for 9 years putting up with all the cr@p. Then someone who's been in the Company since May comes along and makes a stupid comment like that. I just hope I don't find I'm flying with you soon.
Rant over!!
Glamgirl,
Unfortunatey it has always been the same with the WW LHR unions. They see us as a base that doesn't really matter. It's only when the changes that we have had to put up with start happening to them that they start getting on the high horses. How dare the Company do this to us! Oh it already happens at LGW, really?
Yes the single fleet at LGW is great for us and I do feel genuinely sorry for the new recruits that have been sat around on loads of days off and STBY's earning no money. All I can say is, it has to change once all the routes come over in February. Don't forget that we only have had until recently four of the nine routes.
Let's wait and see what happens with b&b, after all it is in our MOA.
YD