Adolf Hucker.
2 very well written and thoughtful posts.
atr209 - In agreeing with Adolf Huckers post. I again will seek to reiterate that BALPA is not some third party. That is the message that the FR management will try and paint, as they have in meetings.
Your BALPA company council, (which one day may include you), will be made up of fellow FR pilots, it is they with YOUR consultation and YOUR opinions that will approach the issues we face, it will then be YOU who has the final say.
Everyone is so used to the FR way of just doing as they will at will and dictating everything that maybe its hard to grasp the idea of a genuine collective system, where we all work with management on issues to find middle ground rather than get shafted, intimidated and told to take it or **** off.
Think of it more along the lines of a genuine ERC, chosen by the pilots to represent their interests, that listens to other pilotsm unlike the current charade and unilateral dictations.
BALPA is the professional industry leading association that will provide various mechanisms and legal advice so that we the FR pilots can discuss a whole number of issues that affect us and then seek collectively to work with management on solutions.
Of course they do not want this, it wil be the first time they will have to have a 2 way conversation and to consider their actions.
They are far more used and comfortable in having one way conversations, where everyone is powerless to do anything.
And it is this state of affairs they desperately want to maintain, kepping you firmly under their boot.
Painting BALPA as some 3rd party who will make descision on your behalf is just part of the mis-information in achieving their goal in keeping you suppressed.
BALPA only facilitates what its members ask for. This recognition campaign is not their idea. It was FR pilots petitioning them to do it.
Everything that has happened in this BALPA drive so far, is as a direct result of Ryanair pilots, and BALPA members pushing the association to act and end this abuse.
Join up and be a part of your own future, rather than a spectator.
p.s Adolf Hucker
I would suggest that if a pilot cannot work out why it is worth him investing £25 a month
But that only makes £300 per year, How can that be true, I was told it costs £1000 a year in a recent memo !!
