Jet II
absolutely untrue - the rest of the company have not been offered the opportunity to have pensionable pay increased, an increase in increments or a 4.5% pay rise.
My apologies, I thought your original comment was referring only to the pensions settlement, not the whole thing. This was reinforced by you adding
(flight crew excepted of course)
at the end because, of course, flight crew have only negotiated so far on pensions, not pay.
I can't however agree with your other sentiments. The 4th purser on 747's is going and the pay rise was not backdated, as it should have been, to 1st Oct 2006 (when the last pay deal ran out). Both of these provide the money to fund the 4 extra increments. All that has happened is that money the CC community already had has been slightly redistributed. Was a strike needed for that?