A few facts about Balpa's recent responses/actions etc..
One of the crew council members who left the company recently after the last round of redundancies, warned a few individuals against what the
FORMER chairman was asking them to support, stating it was all to support his own cause.
Former Chairman has always wanted a Baby only seniority list as it moves himself and the
current Chairman way up the list.
Current chairman when asked by a SFO about potentially having to take a pay cut for a seasonal command "Maybe you will have to take some pain for the promotion" was the reply.
Former Chairman has several times put the suggestion that capts seniority be based on date of command and not joining, again all helps his position on the seniority list.
Current Vice-chairman was against the secondment of SFOs to Left seat for the summer based on the fact that he and other Capts being forced onto seasonal contracts as a result of redundacies and would be earning less than said SFOs, however as soon as the situation changed for him personally( kept job full-time due VRs) he backed down screwing over his fellow Capts not so fortunate in the process.
So I ask you, is anyone really surprised that the troops are P
d off and begining to revolt
Now to be fair they have done an enormous amount at Baby, but, it is their mandate to do so and does not allow them based on history to screw us from now on.
In my opinion the IPA group were too quick, before checking the facts clearly, in releasing their latest memo and need to play a smarter, slower game in order to not dis-credit themselves before they start.