not some sort of sabotage of the switches for financial gain as you have scurriously insinuated.
Who insinuated that? I just happened to mention that they seem to be getting broken a lot lately and the rather incredulous payments that result. How can £500 for having a broken bunk light or having to get your beauty sleep with eye covers be justified? Guilty feelings perhaps? (p.s it is spelt scurrilously, don't forget the other 'l' )
All that aside I am just amazed at how BASSA can continue to crow that it has negotiated. BA want to change the core of the business to be able to compete in an new era of travel where the customer has less money to spend or is more circumspect in how they spend it. BASSA offered WW temporary savings over the next two years after it was made patently clear that permanent savings were required. (See case above). The temporary savings were then to have been paid back IN FULL when BA returned to profit as well as re-instatement of all previous T's & C's. So, not much negotiation there, just a begrudging temporary release of commitments, but we want it ALL back!
BA CC are good, some are better than others, some are worse. Fairly standard cross section of employees really. However, some of the top third are milking the system. Already on pay levels that far outstrip the industry standard they enjoy 'disruption' payments that are on an eye watering high scale. Coupled with an intransigence that defies belief when things actually go wrong and a total lack of consideration of the customer by demanding their 48 hours off after a diversion for example.
There are alot of willing new crew members and many of those on the lower pay structures or the SH fleets who are also fed up with this disparity.
BASSA (BA Senior Stewards Association) are clutching at straws now. They realise that WW will force through change and that they stand to lose an awful lot of face and members.
We need to concentrate our efforts on providing the level of CUSTOMER service that keeps people coming back not wasting vast amounts of money on nebulous payments to crew.
Fixed hourly rate, fixed flying payments and a fixed TAFB system for CC. Get rid of the 'credits' system and we can all operate off of a level playing field.
Hmm, sound familiar?