If FR is your best and only option - maybe you should feel lucky you have a job. Its your fate.
24 hours later Bear still hasn't figured out the answer to the SIPTU question. Perhaps he's more confused than he realises.
Bear - I see UNITE has recommended its members reject the Draft NWA on the grounds of insufficient guarentees on Union recognition and collective bargaining. Perhaps they've been reading PPRuNe and you've convinced them that the deal really isn't gonna do what it says on the tin!
Fair enough then - back to the drawing board. We'll just keep kicking until that door is bust wide open. Its gonna happen - or the country will be on its knees by next summer, I promise you that. Sense will prevail.