That is not how it works, you are deliberately trying to paint a false picture to justify this stance.
It is an interesting statement Oneworld that you are presuming of me. Will you answer questions put to you and answer the points properly? Or will you carry on playing airplanes in your bedroom and continue logged on to prune 24/7. Do have a job or just like to make a nuisance of yourself wherever you go? I can direct you to the local off license if you feel like creating trouble which presumably you would do, as you talk out of your a***.
I find it quite amusing that you have the nouce to call me a liar when you obviously have no qualification as a professional pilot or have ever worked in such a profession.
It is great to see that you understand the intricies of industrial relations and that you understand the basic economics of labour.
I doubt if you even know who Adam Smith is?
You have NO QUALIFICATION whatsoever to doubt what any professional pilot says on this website because in fact you are NOT A PROFESSIONAL PILOT. If you don't mind doing us all a favour and go back to playing with your toy airplanes and your binoculars. There’s a good chap....
Pilots can quite easily recognise exactly what is going on with the BFS base. It is an attempt to break prior agreements and lower T+C's across the board. What is your problem with professional pilots being paid a reasonable amount of money for doing a professional job?
This is how the pattern works by continuing to lower T+C's and rates of pay from base to base. It happens in FR and is known to happen now with Easy with the Spanish contracts. It is a blatant attempt to lower wages across the profession as companies make more and more money. Even you must understand you have to pay for professional labour. It costs a certain amount and can not be avoided. Companies are trying to do this type of lowering labour costs further to earn more money on top of the profits they already make.
Pilots will and should protect their rights and contracts from predatory employers who seek to earn higher and higher profit margins at the expense of their staff. Please do not expect that pilots will take an attempt to lower their T+C's lightly as they will not. Inflation is rising and pilots are losing out year after year as every other profession or skilled labour earn more and more. A qualified electrician or plumber in the local London area can now earn more than a B747-400 skipper out of Heathrow. Can you tell me that the balance is right here? Is the amount of responsibility the same and can the plumber lose his job a minimum of three times a year but more realistically five or six time depending on age, rank and responsibilities? A plumber or electrician probably will not and hence why the balance is now wrong with terms of the profession and the relative wage.
Something needs to be done and the EI pilots have done it. They do not want to strike as they have a vested interest in the continued financial viability of their employer. But please do not expect pilots in companies like EI to rollover why the management try to take them down the path of lowering T+C's such as the practice in FR. You can be sure as has been demonstrated that they will not. They will stand up for their rights and T+C's and how dare somebody who isn't even in the same profession or industry try and make these pilots seem like the bad people in all of this. If you want to look at selfish money grabber’s maybe you should look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself some questions?
These pilots are only standing up for their current terms and conditions not extra money or holidays to Barbados. What are your motives in this?
