Let's hope they protect, as not many people in this business are advancing at the moment
Exactly Overstress, that is the only thing we can hope for under the current climate. However, having had a mandate in April saying No to Negotiations (
), BASSA have now sold us down the river!
What's a huge worry is that the crew who cannot think for themselves and have to let BASSA do it for them, are posting on the ESS forum, en masse (after a battle call on other forums) saying how great the BASSA proposal is! So all WW has to do now is come back and say "OK - we'll take everything BASSA has offered -
but we still want crew complements reduced and New Fleet"!
Then where will we be? BASSA have left us wide open, with no room for manoeuvre.
Once again BASSA have said "Jump" and the only question being asked is "How high?".
I personally think there is a lot that could be done with the BA proposal - and it could have turned out to be not a bad deal. It seems that the SENIOR STEWARDS are at play again.
They will take a 2.6% paycut because
they can afford to, but
they won't reduce crew onboard because, god forbid, that may mean that
they have to do a day's work. What about the rest of us that cannot afford a paycut, and ARE prepared to work harder onboard in order to salvage something? Zilch.
There can only be two outcomes to this sorry mess now:
1. A strike - which will ruin us anyway or
2. A very POOR deal, handed to them on a plate by BASSA.
Some momentum is gathering on other forums as members slowly realize the seriousness of what BASSA have done here, but it could well be too little, too late.
This is shameful. Lalalady needs to retreat to Lalaland - fast!