Oooh look... an update:
10/01/10
WAKE UP!
'...What is the Union doing about all our agreements being broken?...'
A lot of people are demanding an answer to this question from us.
They obviously have not read our last newsletter, or just don’t get it. So to these people, we ask you to read it again and then again.
Let us be blunt - the answer to this question is nothing. There is nothing we can do; that was the point of our communication.
We have complained via the phone, in person and in writing that our agreements are being routinely broken at the highest levels, the answer is that our management don’t care, and that they are doing it anyway.
This is what we have been trying to get across to you for a year now; they just don’t care what your agreement says.
We do not have any other options; if BA chooses to deliberately ignore our agreements then there is nothing we can do, apart from take them to court for breech (sic) of agreement and/or go on strike - and as you should already be aware, we are currently already doing both of these things!
To repeat - there are no other options, apart from your reps physically lying under the wheels of the plane to stop it taking off (we wouldn't trust BA not to order the planes to run us over)!
This is why we are having a ballot – That’s is (sic) why we need your support ***, before its too late, because currently your agreements are simply no longer worth the paper they are written on.
They believe that imposition is the future.
We do not; that’s why we are balloting. If you want your agreements to mean something then vote YES to protect them, if you don’t care then vote No – it’s as simple as that.
*** because otherwise we have to do some real work.
OK BASSA members, let me reiterate what it says:
If you want THEIR cushy numbers to mean something then vote YES to protect them, if you don't care about THEM then vote NO. It's as simple as that.
