I think it's important now and I feel compelled to give a massive thankyou to our union reps who inspite of their own feelings on the progress of this situation, have now delivered on what the majority of our members wanted. God knows we didn't think they could.
We are lucky to have union representation at all, and there are still departments who have no representation whatsoever. So we should now get completely behind our reps and hopefully they can now meet with the company and get this mess sorted in the knowledge that they have our full backing.
Remember. The union are only as strong as it's members and now is the time to show how strong we can be regardless of how you voted.
This is primarily a pay issue but we can now get all the other issues out there sorted like :
Crew down
Withheld trip payments
Withheld working up payments
Car park passes
Deteriorating hotel quality
Pensionable elements of pay
Promotion
Rostering issues
The deterioration of the general management of our department
and many many more issues that I'm sure our crew are aware of.
Lets really get tp a point where this a company where people love to work.