OS Secondments
Fork Handles says that the secondments were offered by BA and not requested by BALPA. Not true. Originally BA did not want any link between mainline and OS. BALPA sought secondments, BA conceded in order to avoid a dispute!! BA is limiting secondments to 50% of command vacancies (+ a handful of FO vacancies) BALPA want more for mainline and understand exactly at what costto the promotion opportunities for FO DEPS into OS. That's why they expect BA to pay the bill by ensuring OS DEPS get a seniority number. Good old fashioned protectionism at play here by a powerful industrial group and BALPA officials meekly support them. Dressed up as off-shoring and an attack on T&Cs some way into the future but still nest feathering by BACC for their pilots at the expense of their brothers elsewhere.
And as WW says there will be no seniority number and you go on strike - then what?