IMAWINNER
I think you will find ACMS is a TC or at least a line captain on the B777.
ACMS
Mate like you I am a B scaler but only an FO. I am far from pleased at what has been offered but your shots at A scalers will result in a friendly fire incident. While I concede some A scalers will jump at this offer, we need to keep everyone onside. United we stand, divided we fall.
Personally I feel the AOA should reject the offer but still put it to a vote. That way it sends a clear message to both the company and the AOA GC that they need to do better, substantially better, especially when it comes back with a resounding NO vote.
Regarding retirement age 65. After reviewing contract law from my uni days and getting off the phone to a legal friend of mine that I went to school with we are both of the opinion that if the HK government does introduce age discrimination laws, it wont make our contracts for retirement age 55 null and void. We all signed our contracts of our own free will so they stand, period. All it does is allow those that want to, to approach the company to up their retirement age to 65 i.e. COS08. I think it is the job of all B scalers to try and convince our senior A scale colleges that it is in all our interest to reject this offer until the company comes back with a substantially improved one.
The more I think about this the more I am sure the company has deliberately set the cat amongst the pigeons so as to cause division. Gentlemen and women we must refrain from going down this path for if we do it will lead us nowhere.