The current leave system is diabolical. Poor bloody CSs cant get a break, yet the GFC axe still hangs over their head. Even CC cant get leave! Sure, everyone knew that they might have to work Xmas and Birthdays and School Holidays etc, but is it unreasonable to expect to get one or two annual leave applications approved per year?
Not just that, but when you do request a specific time off for a 'genuinely important' event, you are made to feel like you are asking your DM to sacrifice their first born... What a crock of ....
The company continues to demand petty concessions that will force most cabin crew BELOW the poverty line, yet insists on rewarding its 'corporate failure-golden boys' with hefty bonuses. Don't stop there, they insist on employing a bunch of unqualified, micro-managing, job-justifying, platter-eating gossips as so called 'Development Managers'.
Lordy, think of the cash they could save if they were gone. Not just wages, but the cost of providing them an 'office', all those bollocks professional development courses they seem to be at, the time wasted pursuing trivial and legally dangerous avenues in the name of justifying their own existance and the MASSIVE affect it has on crew morale.
Don't vote up ANY EBA until the DMs are gone.
2-3 BMs per port should be sufficient. If other airlines can do it better with less, why cant Virgin???