McBruce - I attended the very dull BALPA meeting - in a freezing cold glorified parish hall in Bishops Stortford. How scared can they be to meet off airport.
I think BALPA are just playing into Ryanair's hands - it smells like a Mugabellew Machiavellian plot.
1. Ryanair Goad Balpa into action.
2. Balpa Start a half assed - no legal basis - "petition" campaign. Petitions are for new footpaths or pelican crossings - not a way to beat the most aggressive anti untion company in Europe. Pathetic.
3. Ask fools to input their data into an unsecure website.
4. Maybe - just maybe - some small base gets a majority.
5. Balpa insists on negotiations - and Ryanair will A. Make pilots redundant and/or B. Remove existing base conditions and beat them to a pulp. Beat them to a pulp with spreadsheets
6. Ryanair would just love such a row in the current climate - and there will be no sympathy for pilots.
Balpa should go down the same line as Ialpa and try and start numerous tribunal and court cases to tie up Ryanair management in knots - and drive O'Leary to distraction. Oppressive vote rigging, intimidation and threats, bullying hounding of staff on sickness, generally bad behaviour.
Mugabellew - Go Back to your Family in Ireland - and leave us in peace.