Litebulbs,
Ref your earlier post about the £140m required from IFCE, that is the absolute minimum required from the department in the agreement that will inevitably follow.
Other departments have agreed savings and contributed to the SLIGHTLY better figures achieved recently, and cabin crew must contribute their share.
IN ADDITION, cabin crew must realise that by rejecting any savings proposal, threatening to strike, and causing forward bookings to collapse, they must also pay additional costs. In my opinion in the region of £40 million, bringing the total to around £180m, not far off the very first proposed savings over a year ago. Industrial intransigence cannot be rewarded, it must be shown to be costly to the union.
It will be interesting to play spot the difference between the final solution and the offer made by the company in OCT 09. Then we will ask, what has all this achieved?