Unlike many people here I voted against the first and only SFLGW proposal. I found so many loops that the company would use in its favour that I was actually boiling with anger when I put my thoughts across (supported by the proof black on white) to the then CC89 LGW reps, who could only say "well we want it and if you do not agree you should vote against it. What the company wanted in the first place was much worse, you now get one extra day off per month!" I couldn't believe my ears.
I voted against because I knew that this SFLGW move was absolutely necessary for BA as it is nowadays, they needed it, not me, and if only we had all stuck together we probably would have obtained a better deal. It's like trying to buy a rug in the middle east, just a bit more complicated, but it's the same bloody game.
Having said that, the T&Cs I was under just before last october were already much worse than when I joined, so no, I didn't sign up for them at all, they imposed them on me and us all at EFLGW, so as they've done it with us they can do it with anybody else.
LGW has set a precedent which almost none of the thousands of LHR crew/unions cared about at that time thinking they were in a fortress, now this non-caring attitude is coming back to bite you in the rear. Not that I do not feel for you, don't misunderstand me, but I know it's just the inevitable truth.
It's just a matter of time, so far all what I was foreseeing has become a sad reality for us, so I am absolutely certain that it doesn't matter what you guys do or not do, it will happen. Willie could as well be speaking in german and I wouldn't notice the difference.
I hope this will teach us all something.
FBW