gatbusdriver,
I can assure you that I am neither vile, nor little.
I do not, however, subscribe to your overwhelming devotion to what is patently a flawed, in the extreme, collection of mediocre,self serving sycophants.
Moreover, if your sycophants are spending your money training company reps I submit that the training is failing: negotiating redundancies at Thomson, baby and Virgin patently requires a skill base sadly missing from the majority of the pilot population.
Perhaps you would enlighten me, and everyone else, what this "rubbish" is that I am spouting about the BALPA accounts: it is there, in black and white, untarnished by me, MOL, LHC or anyone else.
- Affiliation fees and conferences £409,503 - 144 times more than they spend on training CC reps
- Travelling and out of pocket expenses £396,499 -more than double the cost of defending members
- Lunches and entertainment £80,239 - 28 times the training costs
- Cost of defending members £191,212
- Salaries £1,529,787
- Pensions £ 512,351 - close on 30% of salaries
- Training £2,829 - less than 4% of the cost of lunches and entertainment, NOT EVEN £10 a day
- Motor Vehicle depreciation £18,715 - close on 9% of the cost of defending members and nearly 8 times more than training
- Computer Costs £244,307 - almost 90 times more they spend on training
- The remuneration of the General Secretary £138,199
- Pension - The Employer's contribution was 26% of salary.
I'm sure that your choice to ignore me is borne from a resolve to remain ostrich like, head firmly in the sand surrounding the 40 Thieves, rather than acknowledge common sense and look at the
facts in the accounts.
Incidentally, my PM's aren't turned off: I had a query about FR recruitment from someone only the other day.
Finally, if you dispute my assertions take it up with BALPA's auditors: you are being done!
Barden,
this one is for you
