PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - BA Strike - Your Thoughts & Questions II
View Single Post
Old 26th Jun 2010, 15:37
  #249 (permalink)  
Diplome
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Cumbria
Posts: 586
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
It amazes me that some individuals think that they can dictate terms. From the main CC board by Ava Hannah:

Unless Staff Travel is given back, I am not bothered with this new proposal. They can stuff it. I commute from JNB and I can't wait for years until the Staff Travel issue appears in the European Courts.

They have replaced MTP with a 'top-up payment' which includes a no strike clause. That itself indicates that you will lose a huge amount of your pay if you take industrial action. A two year pay rise? Are BA trying to bribe us to accept a proposal? They have also based the top-up payment, which is £1500 less than the MTP in previous proposals, on last year and this year's schedule which includes three industrial actions and the ash volcano incident. Either way, MFH is going to take all of our lucrative routes and we will have to rely on a silly top-up payment. I don't even want to think of how long it is going to last before they rip that up.

Why did they send out the proposal on a Friday night? And individual offers? BA are trying to divide us even further. Nice try. Sorry Bill Francis and Willie Walsh. Unless you give my Staff Travel back with my original seniority, which I think I have earned after 17 years of continuous service with BA, I am not interested. You could offer me all the money in the world, I still wouldn't take it unless Staff Travel is given back.
The objection to the individual offers to non-BASSA members is interesting. Could it be that BASSA is feeling some heat as they no longer control the fate of their non-members.

Does this individual truly think that BA is going to come to a halt if her staff travel is not returned? Does she truly think that her staff travel with seniority is going to be returned? Perhaps she would be wise to apply with other airlines that will cover her commute from Johannesburg and have no problem with her attempts to bring her airline down.


Diplome is offline