Barden
You cant see the reality for the bull!!!! that you are being fed from and by those set upon the BALPA road to disaster.
As RSS has said the time is NOT right to force Union recognition, this must wait until the market favours pilots and not vice versa.
The industry is in melt down and there are no secure jobs in our industry.
Should you wish to force the BALPA issue you will only make the Ryanair contracted pilots futures more unstable than they are already.
With a company that is as diverse as Ryanair with bases and Brookfield crews you are on a slippery slope to the unemployment line.
Ryanair contracted pilots are the only ones that BALPA can or will support, and as is the case today the Brookfield pilots cannot be brought into the BALPA fold until there is agreement with Ryanair Brookfield and BALPA (Hell freezing over comes to mind)
The same problems are also evident in other companies seeking representation, who have European bases and differing contracts of employment.
Back off for a year or 18 months, work to keep jobs during that time then look at the big picture, not just individual base or pilot goals, and then in which direction you should then go.
Having been in the job que for several months on more than one occassion, I would now rather work with management to save and expand jobs than sit fat dumb and happy while others in the company loose theirs.
Rocking the boat now will cost jobs, and the question you should ask yourselves is "Do I want a job or the dole".
Think before you act in haste. Those who have jobs should try their hardest to keep them. You don't have to win every battle to win the war.
You may think from this that I am in Ryanair management, but I am just an employed pilot who has seen it all got the T shirt and can see what is happening, both from a BALPA PLC point of view and one who wishes to see maximum employment in the industry.
Guy's and Girl's look realistically at the current climate and the hundreds of pilots out there looking for work from Cadet levels to very experienced Captains, and think !!!!
RSS, I have observed has posted on RYR related topics with logic and fact and I consider that he should be listened too in this and other forums.