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I sense you would welcome a shift to RA65; and if that is at the expense of BPP and not a slip, but a massive shift, in Command times, then, in your mind: so be it. With the amount of litigation, particularly the BPP for FO's resultant of the +55 on the freighter, clearly something is going to give.
Obviously, this will be a bitter, if not unpalatable pill for Junior Crew. However, perhaps with some justication, you say this pill must be swallowed because; "the issue of age discrimination is basically forcing the issue on the company."
However, surely the company is going to continue to cut your pay on your 55th birthday and most probably no longer contribute to your pension scheme, limit your health care and remove your loss of licence benefits. Are you not being somewhat disingenuous to trumpet any formalization of the current scheme (without BPP) as a triumph over discrimination?
There may well be a forced change to our COS, but please, don't try and tell us this some good over evil thing..... it is merely another stunt by the company to enhance the bottom line by avoiding/eliminating BPP and getting an A-Scaler to work for B or C Scale lite.