All of the other Unions have managed to negotiate some form of agreed settlement. Why is it that BASSA is the only Union who would not accept anything that was put to them
wobble2plank, this is where people have not the right information. Not all the other union have agreed to a settlement.
Even BALPA's agreement is not sealed yet. Their agreement will be implemented in its entirety once the company has reached an agreement with all the other departments.
I have friends who work on the ground and they tell me that no agreemnt has been reached for staff on the ground....
Do you know something they don't?
What wobble is alluding to is the fact that BA and Unite reached agreement in November regarding the groundstaff. Unite have refrained from signing the agreement to avoid putting the cabin crew in the untenable position of being
seen to be the only department not to have co-operated.
The pilot's backstop in their agreement (all reverts to normal end of March 2010 unless all other groups sign off) is as a result of the previous form of BASSA when BALPA have agreed to changes and BASSA have done their traditional (and in the past, quite successful) toy throwing.