In case you've wondered why BALPA has been so poor in representing our interests for the last 10 years (since CD took the helm), maybe one may question whether the helm has been manned as much as it should! All the questioning about the helmsman's remuneration makes you wonder if he's trying to drive another ship as well as this one! Take a peek at:
http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/
then type in ....... about/christopherdarke.htm
I don't know whose ugly mush that is-ignore the picture, but it makes you wonder where the poor membership come in the list of priorities, and why the GS's financial control of BALPA has, at best, been so second hand!
thought we paid an official full time rates for full time work. It seems we have a part time official for full time rates. I may have missed it, but he doesn't seem to mention anything about 'Competition Commission' duties in his website
http://www.chrisdarke.com/. I am not allowed to do other jobs apart from fly for BA. I am paid a (alleged) full time salary to make BA my one and only. Under CD's leadership, we have all fallen so our one and only income now seems like a part time income in International terms!
Are there any other duties to distract him from BALPA matters (finance in particular)? Of course, to be even balanced, poor old John Frohnsdorff does have a full time flying job to do! I deeply regret after 32 years I will leave BALPA unless there is a change of direction.