Originally Posted by midman
There was the suggestion recently from IFCE that some cabin crew might have occasional additional duties on the ground, the intention being that CSDs might carry out some part time role in the office, Bassa allowed cabin crew to believe that it meant they'll be loading bags, doing check in, then reporting for duty to fly. Similarly, Bassa interpret BA's attempt to to maximise flexibility in its workforce in the rare event of disruption, as an attempt to turn the cabin crew into dogsbodies, doing general jobs anywhere, anytime. All nonsense.
Completely agree, as ex-ground staff this looks fairly similar to what most of us had in our contracts, that in times of disruption or industrial unrest you will be expected to work in other areas, and to be fair to Bassa when it was added we were told exactly the same thing, that we could be loading bags or checking pax's in.
In over 10 years this of course never happened, in fact whenever there was any disruption the engineers were offered overtime to load bags, as I understand it the TMG grade engineers also have this clause in their contracts, but the extra duties were purely voluntary and even attracted an overtime payment.
If a number of staff already have this clause in their contract why does the BA news regularly carry requests for volunteers whenever it threatens to snow etc. BA could just force these staff to work regardless. To me this just proves it's no more than blatant scaremongering by Bassa.