BA crew cost double the nearest competitor, with an £800 million budget you could thus save £400million and that would put the company on a break even from cc alone.
CC got off lightly really with only a 14% cut and not 50%, the proposal even keeps pay as it is and just reduces crewing levels and saves in the future with a new contract.
I have it on some reasonable authority, that if any group fails to reach agreement by the end of the month, that the targets for that group when the company come to impose a solution will in all likelyhood vary upwards, ie the imposed savings will match the current business needs rather than those back in January when they were originally set. The business has gone downhill since then.
So, SP, you may be right or you may be wrong in your allegations, but you see it doesn't really matter either way, because the letter of the law and the man at the helm will (right royally and legally) have his way with you, all BASSA can do is mitigate the extent of the shafting, and this they seem totally unprepared to do, and it is his that we have been advising about for some months, to no avail.
The rest of the employees will welcome it and whilst feeling sorry for the some individuals, feel that justice has been done and that as a company we can move forward as a more focussed entity.