I genuinely feel for Ryanair employees. They are treated like scum by their dire employer. Tragically most of them chose not to spend the 1% required to join BALPA and coincidentally this is happening to them. Maybe there is some sort of strange connection between organised labour and better terms and conditions. Might I humbly suggest that you could point to every single company who works around the UK and make a direct comparison of their terms and conditions against their percentage relative membership?