BALPA Consistently failing to Achieve
A few days ago I asked if anyone could suggest anything which could be listed as a key achievement of BALPA over the last 10 years.
So far we have had many responses but no one todate has highlighted anything at all which could be considered to be a BALPA achievment.
Summarising the response I note that
Whyeyeman commented that we pay a lot of money to BALPA and get nothing in return. Whyeyeman stated that
"BALPA are a backward looking talking shop where everyone moans about how bad things have got with absolutley no culture of getting anything done at the fundemental level"
Council Van continued this theme
"It appears that BALPA are happy to take your cash but if you require any help from them...I would personally put them right up there with our greedy friends in the banking industry"
Bluelearjetdriver stated that
"BALPA are systematically degrading conditions for future generations"
Max Con got it absolutely spot on when he stated that
"The BALPA stick is small and firly limp"
Captain ronweb asserts
"What I am certain of is that Jim McAuslan has shared more games of golf and 3 course lunches with the trail blazers of P2F than he has written letters telling them he is unhappy about this trend"
and Clanger 32 notes that
"My gripe with BALPA is that they do absolutley nothing at all. BALPA is like having a dog with no teeth and having to bark yourself"
Some years ago I apllied to join TGWU but was told that TGWU could not accept applications for membership from pilots because BALPA through the TUC had banned TGWU from admitting pilot members.
Given BALPA's failures to perform would anyone by intrested in pooling together and making a single large block application to join Unite or another Union that might have more capability and credability.