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Old 18th Dec 2007, 17:19
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Also Shanwick. The deal on the table was a whole lot of lifestyle and efficience changes for less than RPI. If the company had offered a decent value for the changes tabled then maybe that deal would have gone through. As it was they felt we should have increased our monthly stby allocation, reduced the number of crew onboard the A/C and frozen the salary of newly promoted crew for a year amongst other things and all for 2.5% and the company payrise in year 2.

If they had offered us 23% over 3 years then maybe we would have some respect for the management and wouldn't feel like they are taking the

The members rejected that not the union. I assume you would have too if you'd recieved a balloT paper.

Even in the last deal we were still being asked to give up lifestyle changes with an extra month of stby but still for only RPI.
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