To argue that the FAAA can't do much because it doesn't have enough members makes me wonder what my fees are paying for?
CBR_1 - Numbers represent strength and the FAAA speaks on behalf of their members, which is about 50-60% of cabin crew.
And maybe those crew who don't choose to be members are not freeloading selfish individuals who don't give a damn. Maybe they are people who for their own reasons and using their own brains have decided that FAAA representation is not for them.
AirborneSoon - The other 40-50% of crew have exercised their legal right to NOT choose a bargaining representative. However, when the views of this group are called upon, who is going to speak on their behalf during all the hearings? This is the problem that is going to manifest itself. Management are quite satisfied with the division amongst the crew as it means half of them are effectively silenced, which makes their cost-saving goals much easier to realise.
The EBA vote may have been the only chance for the group without a bargaining representative to voice their opinion about the proposed working conditions as based on the company's policy of
listening to crew and using the skewed results from the closed-ended questions in the post-voting surveys to make decisions, they gave us what we wanted the third time round!
