BALPA is neither a union nor a flying club, it is an association. I am a member and I consider my 1% well spent. I was pro-BALPA in the Starmer case; as an employee I didn't like the idea that my employer could operate outside the law. Some people don't seem to make the intellectual leap required to see the implications of the ruling for our employment conditions (right to request part-time= more pilot jobs including those for women...
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Hand Solo's posts come over as rational, knowledgeable and well-constructed to me, (we must talk to the same BALPA reps) but then I am employed by the same company as he is - cast me out to the devil now.
