You're posts are arrogant and one-eyed.
You are correct , I (and a few others) have been trying to warn you to for weeks that you risk treading on your you know whats and end up with nothing for BPP. You may soon very well have a choice of a COS 08 style contract of no BPP until 65+ or continue on your current COS. You can huff and puff all you like but at the end of the day that will be your choice and the company know the probable numbers that will roll over to COS 09.
If trying to point out to the industrially naive bullies that alienating sections of your own membership using the pathetic war cry of democracy is arrogant and one eyed, then yes I am guilty. Is it one eyed to acknowledge RA65 is coming sooner or later, as unpleasant as it may be some for the short term it is going to happen one day.
Is it arrogant to point out to you that there are many more issues worth fighting for to protect your contract than the relatively measly dollars involved in the appeal. Is it one eyed to try and get it thru some of your heads that a unified union is the best way to solve the plethora of shortcoming in your contracts such as the "junior freighter" failed concept. Is it one eyed to point out to you that you are about to have no rostering practises for 2010.
Or are some of you blokes so dumb that you want to go to war over 35k GBP and risk splitting the union and giving the company everything it wants as easy as taking candy from a baby.