Rainboe, agree entirely, if your company goes down the tubes, or is only saved from doing so by someone else, the "someone else" with the bucks can cherry-pick what they want or not.
However, if a company is merely downsizing, it is Oh too convenient just to say BHX ? Out ! or as Virgin tried to do post 9/11, 747Classic rated ? Out !
I sincerely believe that if the principal of time in company is not respected, it is a very short step indeed to eat or be eaten for everyone. Yet more of the Beanies favourite snack , " divide & conquer".
I think it is entirely approppriate that you can lose your job in EMA because BHX is closing and someone senior wants your place, equally I think a Union with any b@lls whatsoever should (as In Virgin) absolutely insist that you remain in employment even if "your" fleet is reduced if you are the senior man (or woman
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I agree, the law may not say so, but then sometimes the law is an @ss and that is what a union should be doing, not just meekly quoting "it isn't the law", but saying "Sod off, it's not fair , we don't accept, everyone out" otherwise why bother paying for a union ? might as well just hire a solicitor or go to the Citizens Advice Bureau when the sh1t hits the fan and save on the union subs.