Virgin FSM's to be axed
I have just been told by a senior executive within Thompson of a conversation that took place between Pedro Achillea (VS Head of cabin sevices) and a number of his friends in a bar. This reliable source knew a huge amount of detail of our company/role/present situation and said that Pedro will be completing the same service "review" with the FSM's as he did with the IFBT's. Only this time we will not be offered anything other than redundancy, the plan is to get rid of the high cost of the FSM's and allow the CSS's to run the flight saving the company about £15m a year.
Our "consultation" period will start after the pay discussions have finished in April/May 09 and once the crew are tied into a long term deal. The union are unaware of this and will not be told until just prior to April/May 09 due to the high number of FSM reps in the union
The advice I was given by this good friend was to get out before Pedro wields his axe. We must act to stop this guy coming in and axing our roles as he has in other companies .