Evening all,
Just a quick one...
KO Appreciate the reply however I do feel that you have gone off a little on a tangent regarding my example of info on cc.com. I was merely repeating the latest rumour, the thread over there goes on to further talk about if it is demonstrated to the tax man that crew are bringing allowances home (as I and many do to supplement our poor basic).
The knock on of that could then be "ah, so the crew don't need all the allowances we provide them for subsidence down route, as proved by company allowance tax records 08/09 (on diners cards if it goes ahead) so we can justify cutting allowances". This is an extreme example (but who knows these days companies are going to extrodinary lenghts to cust costs, crew rest areas out , oh no back in again etc etc) , and my post was made to suggest the Virgin Mary should not discount everything that is posted on that site in its entirety.
Often I read changes on there before they hit i-fly. I am fully aware of HMC&E rules regarding bringing monies into the UK or declaring monies earned and vrought into the UK or even just interest earnt from overseas holdings if one is a UK tax resident.
Again this is one reason why our Allowances require a radical overhaul to bring us inline with other carriers, 1 because it will happen anyway and 2 better if we instigate the change through the unions rather than the company instigating them in on a "on the back foot" fashion due to demands from HMR&E.
I appreciate all comments however after taking all sources on information available and my personal reasons I have now mailed my response back (judge me if you like) but as has been mentioned somewhere back in the past 88 posts I have my reasons and goals and they have not been achieved, also I believe the format of further cabin crew negotiations from next time round will be different due to the mess this time and the merger of the unions.
Regarding posting replies to posts pro industrial action, as VS-LHR mentioned last night "a balanced argument/debate" is required, many posts here are against Industrial action so I am trying to keep it balanced. Many posters pro action have stopped posting following the message from the roo a few weeks back about using external sites to discuss the issues, they have stopped posting for fear of getting in trouble following pro action postings as many people can be identified easily through historical postings on here and cc.com (Again I have received numerous pm's regarding this).
We must also accept again that sites like this can be used as propaganda tools for both sides (conspiracy theorist in me again).
Anyway last post on the subject from me now till result is known as I feel we are going round and round in circles now. My vote is cast and whatever the outcome I will go with the majority, that is what freedom and democracy is all about.
As for weather and picket lines, as someone said many posts ago, If Carlsberg did picket Lines - Virgins one would "Probably the best looking picket line in the world".
Safe festive seasonal flying everyone.
p.s. - Hey, it didn't turn out to be a quick one liner as expected (why does that always happen on prune ?)
Last edited by scoobydooo; 5th December 2007 at 18:21.
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