Thanks for the link, Lurker. Anyway, here are the 18 points:
1. One crew member will be removed from all Heathrow Worldwide 747 flights from 16th November 2009.
2. One purser will be removed from all Heathrow Worldwide 777 flights from 16th November 2009.
3. One crew member will also be removed from Long range 777 Worldwide routes from 16th November 2009.
4. An additional crew member will also be removed from specified high work load 747 and 777 routes from 16th November 2009. As per agreement reached post September 11th 2001.
5. All worldwide CSD’s will be instructed to carry out some of the duties of the removed crew member, in addition to and with no reduction of their already high workload. This is without any reference to the negotiated job description as defined in the CSD framework.
6. All remaining worldwide crewmembers will be instructed to carry out some of the duties of the removed purser and or main crew position, with no reduction of their already high workload.
7. Eurofleet crew compliments will be unilaterally reduced from 1st December 2009.
8. You are replacing one Purser position with a main crew member on the 777 aircraft at London Gatwick from 1st December 2009.
In addition;
9. You are imposing a two year freeze to base pay and allowances on all cabin crew.
10.You have imposed a 20% reduction in employee food subsidies at both Heathrow and Gatwick.
11.You are reducing transfer and promotion opportunities within all grades and bases within the established crew compliments.
12.You are ending working up payments
13.You are linking long and short haul sectors within the same duty between Gatwick/LCY and JFK via SNN– in breach of the Gatwick Fleet MOA.
14.You are ignoring the maximum planned duty period allowed by the Gatwick Fleet MOA, intentionally misinterpreting the same in order to facilitate the Maldives itinerary.
15.You are unilaterally removing the ability for crew to transfer between Gatwick Fleet and Heathrow Fleet presently available under the Ops and Choice Agreement ratified at NSP
16.You are refusing to recognise and failing to adhere to the IFC- Terms of Reference and other specific agreements. These agreements and terms of reference relate to product development, product changes and crewing levels onboard both long haul and short haul services from Heathrow and Gatwick.
17.You have re-imposed the concept of using part time cabin crew during their unavailable period, without agreement to cover flying duties. This contravenes the agreement reached with the trade unions in the dispute settlement document in 2006/7.
18.You have failed to honour the Dispute Settlement Document of 2006/7, in that there are a number of outstanding items that have not been implemented or addressed by British Airways.
.... in which case, BASSA
have potentially made the same mistake as in 2007.
For the benefit of Fume Event, if all 18 grievances are the reason for the ballot, all BA need to do is pick any one of them, reverse the imposition of that particular grievance (for the sake of argument, no. 10) and the ballot becomes invalid as they will have acceded to one of the demands, meaning the union cannot strike over the remainder without a new ballot.
So for clarification, are the above 18 reasons the definitive (published) reasons for the strike?