CX B-Scale Check and Trainers

[Lost_Cause]

Five Green

However if I was in management I would then hire direct entry trainers on the grounds that I cannot fill the position from within.

Maybe you're right... maybe that's what management would have done. But they would have had to weigh the costs of doing so first. From a financial perspective, they might have considered it cheaper to just offer a better deal to the boys from within (A-scale?). From an industrial perspective, I highly doubt that the company would be silly enough to re-visit the mistakes of the past, and start another ASL. So on second thought, I don't agree with you.

So we actually need the training roster full of AOA members so that we can bring some reality in to the training system. It is possible to maintain your morals and be a trainer some have managed it !!!

On this point, I somewhat agree with you (initially)... we do need AOA members on the Training Team. But what we didn't need was for guys to continually volunteer their services to the company while we were trying to negotiate a better deal. By doing so, you were only undermining the efforts of the negotiators. Instead of empowering the AOA, you reduced their ability to negotiate. Why could you not have waited until an acceptable deal was negotiated, and then have gone in to fix the training system? Win-win? Look at what we have now... thanks to you guys taking the pressure off the company! I wonder if all the FO's and SO's will see the benifit you guys have provided to the training system... while they wait years longer for their promotions?
From a moral perspective... I wonder how one sleeps at night, knowing full well that they are responsible to a large extent for the imposition of COS08? It's a war... you can't fight for both sides!