HiFlyer14,
The reason they have taken those figures is purely and simply that they have copied the BALPA agreement whilst failing to take into account that the flight crew have already agreed to most of the original BA proposal anyway 5 years ago.
Due to the ineptitude of BASSA and the ridiculous short time frame they left themselves with after all their posturing and time wasting they have, indeed, left you all wide open.
I cannot see BA accepting the counter proposal at all. Why do we have CSD's on LH flights who take no active part in the service? Surely they should be 'leading from the front' showing the junior members of the team what they should 'aspire' to?
Also the main thrust for BA is to rationalise the bewildering array of 'payments' into a single, manageable hourly sum. As the BASSA agreement seems to attempt to sidestep this issue by carbon copying the BALPA deal (that, incidentally we were all called 'ar$eholes' on the BASSA forum for accepting but for BASSA it is a brilliantly wrought deal?) and agreeing a paycut to protect the LH, CSD block payments. How many 'lates' will a CSD need to make up 2.6% bearing in mind the differing tax rate? Could be far tougher for the workers on SH to make up the difference.
Also why should the company, running the business for the investors and the customers have to 'request' activation of disruption clauses with the union? Who the hell runs the company anyway? Get aircraft back to base, get customers as quickly and efficiently to their destination as possible and THEN sort out disputes. BASSA DO NOT RUN BA NOR WILL THEY EVER RUN BA.
There is a long, long way to go in the negotiations and only 3 days left to do it. By WW statement if an AGREEMENT has not been reached by the 30th then standby for full activation of the BA measures.
BASSA have, once again, sold you all down the river and tried to window dress it by 'negotiating' exactly what BALPA negotiated over a hard 4 months. Seems remarkable similar to the pensions deal where BASSA were heard to say 'we want what they got'. Pathetic.