I can only speak for the two companies I have worked for and can say that the recognition and subsequent membership increase yielded a significant increase in our T&C's. I think a lot of us would like to see a more hardline approach on lots of issues but my experience is that we all tend to moan about BALPA and blame them rather than be pro active and hold the company to account! Our managers probably love it and know that every degredation in terms they try to impose will result in people blaming BALPA and moaning with the hope that membership falls and de unionising is completed! I do hope that someday we as pilots will stick together instead of always putting self first??
I am sad for those who feel let down by their representatives, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater and just give up, or we may as all join the ryanairisation that the airlines so desperately want to impose on us.