NSF, I've enjoyed reading your posts over the last few years, always an interesting point of view and without fail a complete 180 degree swing in your view towards the end!
I find it interesting that you are quick to jump in on the Aer Lingus/Astreus thread about blatant union busting tactics with cheap labour yet you propose the same thing for our German colleagues, bizarre!? Are there two Norman Stanley Fletchers?!
My take on it is that the German colleagues need pay based on local competitors with a slant on our other euro contracts. From BALPA I understand the company has completely ignored the benchmarking data and is not interested in our other euro contracts.
It matters not what the pound/euro does. If we worked for an Ethiopian airline but based in the UK would you accept a contract based on Ethiopian rates of pay? I don't think so. Why do you think that our German colleagues should accept a contract based on UK pay when the exchange rate is at an all time low. They earn euros and they spend euros, exchange rates matter little to them. They need a salary in line with other local competitors and easyjet's euro contracts.
Based on the current easyjet offer if the euro weakened back to it's historical average of 1.5 to the £ using your logic would it not then be reasonable for the company to turn to the UK workforce and then say you are too expensive compared to your German colleagues you must all take a paycut?
I find your position bizarre. Discuss.
Last edited by Orange Peel; 5th December 2009 at 09:25.