NSF unfortunately BALPA shot itself in the foot by first splitting the pilot body into two much like our company does and then has pissed about for the best part of 6 months with just hot air coming from them(endless meetings to bitch and moan with no progress ever achieved). I was a BALPA member but got frustrated at the hot air sessions and then the final straw was them wanting me to hand a letter in saying that no contractor should fly whilst RYR pilots were given leave. This despite me telling them that I was a contractor and refusing to get a ruling on the legality of the whole brookfield thing.
I'm happy for the easy guys and hope you can defend yourself from buy to fly things and summer only commands which haven't reached us yet, but saying that BALPA will cure all our ills is a bit naive especially seeing as BALPA has been dropping the ball of late (Local contracts for the easy boys in Madrid?)!