Pay Deferral
Looker
While I agree with some of what you say about BALPA, I cannot agree with it all. As far as I remember the company unilaterally deferred the pay rise in Apr 09. Is that correct or is my recollection amiss? Also there were some BALPA Base meetings late last year at which the reason for the 2 year deferral was quite openly explained. As I understood it the agreement which BALPA signed, after the announcement of redundancies, led to a much improved package for compulsory redundancy and was also intended to support the extra aircraft. Not using LIFO hurt a lot of people though in the end as far as I know there were no compulsory redundancies.
I have certainly suffered a detriment to my Ts and Cs but I would blame the management more than BALPA. Management have the authority and responsibility and they have not acted in a way I find desirable.