BALPA will be at next weeks TUC Congress. They are moving against pilots being used as guinea pigs for the UK ID Card scheme:
45 National Identity Scheme
Congress notes that the Government proposes to require workers in aviation to enrol in the National Identity Scheme in 2009. Congress has deep concerns about the implications of the National Identity Scheme in general and the coercion of aviation workers into the scheme in particular. Congress sees absolutely no value in the scheme or in improvements to security that might flow from this exercise and feels that aviation workers are being used as pawns in a politically led process which might lead to individuals being denied the right to work because they are not registered or chose not to register in the scheme. Congress pledges to resist this scheme with all means at its disposal, including consideration of legal action to uphold civil liberties.
British Air Line Pilots’ Association
Well done chaps! Hope this wakes the Home Secretary up.
Link to the agenda:
http://www.tuc.org.uk/congress/tuc-15221-f0.pdf