What a sad sight. The blind leading the blind.
No wonder the pilots at Jet2 can't get their act together and get trodden over by their management. They appear to be very inexperienced with little or no experience of ever having worked for a proper airline where the pilots are represented by a well organised company council backed up by a proper union with all the necessary expertise at hand.
Just one look at MANBLK's first post and then his recommendation that BALPA should be ignored in favour of a weak and ineffectual representatives council just shows how sad and disorganised they are. I'll hazard a guess that the reps council also represents the cabin crew and the office workers.
When are these pilots going to recognise the fact that office workers and cabin crew are not going to fight for your relatively much better off gains just as you pilots won't put your own relatively much better salaries on the line for their relatively much smaller renumeration. It would make a great theatrical farce if anyone ever decided to write this story down for posterity and made a script out of it.
If you indeed have over 50% representation amongst your pilot workforce (which I doubt as so many of the Jet2 pilots are rank amateurs when it comes to industrial relations issues with their almost complete lack of real world experience) and you haven't even got a clue about the legalities of what you can and can't do with regards to organising and getting the necessary recognition from your management, then there's never going to be any hope for you. Surely at least one of you who is a BALPA member has the nounce to get in touch with your union to clarify what the next step is and what can they do to support you in those efforts.
So far, it appears that the holy trinity of the advocates of the workers representative council hold sway and are as easily led to whatever path their management want them to follow. When will some of you ever learn?
Jet2, the low pay airline and likely to stay that way for the forseeable future.