BALPA and BA talks breakdown

[biddedout]

Overstress.

Oh yes, the departure from the regions. That was all Osamas fault wasn’t it? A convenient excuse to be rolled out time and time again over the next three years even though it was probably down to pressure from the Locos and BA chose to run away.

BAR became BAconnect. WW gave BAacon two years to adapt to a lower cost model and turn its “losses” into a profit otherwise that was the end. A firm and decisive plan to work to perhaps, which some of us were actually stupid enough to believe. What he conveniently forgot to tell the Bacon staff, who were desperately trying to achieve this, was that he was already into talks with a competitor to give the operation away. And he didn’t even offer his assurances in blood on that one.

As several people have suggested, strike action does seem a little excessive given the underlying issue, however, if it is all about trust, then BA have a significant responsibility for leading a bunch of generally can-do pragmatic non militant workers to this position, and they now have a responsibility at Board level for finding ways to regaining this trust. They really do need to come up with something better than the threat of a court order in order to diffuse this.

The BA way. “Working together as a team”. - Hardly.

I would love to know what the ACAS facilitator actually made of last weeks efforts. I suspect it will take months of long hard frank facilitated discussions before team BA can consider itself to be working as a joined up team.


Now when is the AGM? I feel a question coming on