.....but the fact remains that BASSA have achieved a better deal for their members than is on offer to the rest of the company employees .....
Errrr.....what exactly?
The pension money was already there, your RPI + a tad was not backdated so the extra increments (which only go to those already at the previous CAPPED pay point) do nothing for the supposedly low earners joing since 1997.
Although it is interesting to see that this post was made and then hastily withdrawn from elsewhere on this website:
our t & c's are head and shoulders above any other UK airline, and dare i say alot of other national carriers around the world.
the new payscales have been improved SIGNIFICANTLY.
the 8th (and until tomorrow) final annual increment in basic pay for post 1997 main crew was £15,748.
BASSA have now managed to get 4 more years worth of increments:
* 9th increment = £16,200
* 10th increment = £17,000
* 11th increment = £17,800
* 12th increment = £18,600
HOWEVER, when you factor in the first year of our two year pay deal uplift the numbers increase further:
* 9th increment = £16,945
* 10th increment = £17,782
* 11th increment = £18,618
* 12th increment = £19,455
obviously these numbers will increase still further next year when the second pay award uplift kicks in.
some have pointed out that these new increments are non-pensionable.
however they only non-pensionable for crew who are in NAPS - for crew who are in BARP, they are pensionable.
So then add in the large dollop of allowances and it makes a mockery of the claim I read somewhere about poorly paid CC.