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Old 28th Jun 2009, 21:34
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The way l see it is that James Bothwell has been appointed by First Reserve, the owners of CHC, in order to drive through efficiency savings, specifically from the pilot workforce. Our colleages in the EMS business in the States may be familiar with him, and what little we read about him doesn't bode well. He will want to make his mark in order to justify his appointment and am afraid minor adjustments to working conditions wont, in his eyes, be seen as doing it. My gut feeling is there are tough times ahead, but if the changes he intends to make are not resisted then we could be seeing the gradual clawing back of all the gains made in the past ten years in the helicopter industry. Should he be successful then there is no doubt that these new conditions will rapidly be applied to the pilot workforce in Bristows and Bond. So from the rest of us we wish you guys the very best in resisting these changes
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