Slim
We are in a deep recession. As a result of that, fuel prices, lack of funding/loans leeds to airlines going bust, making cut backs etc. You can't blame BALPA for redundancies. If a company was making people redundant, I would rather BALPA were involved than not.
Why? I hear you scream in one of your usual rude factless rants.
Well in our company, rather than let the management make people redundant how they saw fit, with the hard work put in by our CC, we ended up with eVR, part time working innitiatives and no CR. So you will find in a lot of companies, BALPA CC's try and minimise the impact of redundancies (this of course is of no comfort for those being made redundant, but BALPA can't just wave a magic wand and make it all ok).
As to your rude statement
Seems to me that you lot are a mealy mouthed, self serving bunch of liars, hypocrites and self serving pocket liners!
Where do I begin. We have just voted through a pay deal that results in a pay freeze for a few years (because, as a reasonable union/membeship, we realise what state the industry is in). In place of a pay rise the CC negotiated command bridging for FO's, increased pension contributions into the money purchase scheme. I can only imagine how shocked you will be when I tell you that a lot of people who voted the deal through are LHS and on the final salary pension scheme, so did not benefit. Not too sure how your above quote fits in with that.
What else have our CC done? Prevented compulsory pay cuts, put an end to pay to fly schemes, negotiated pay rises in the past that were over and above the standard % they were offering non union groups in the company (the way I see it, these alone have made my membership effectively free), stopped CR's, limited the number of contract captains allowed. I could carry on.......but I'm sure you're not interseted.
I wish you, and all at FR the best, and seasons greetings.
Here's hoping you or your colleagues do not regret the lack of union representation.