Management has been bloating to the media with heavily exaggerated figures on our salaries and compared us to Virgin Atlantic and mistakingly forgot, I should imagine (?), to include their allowances which are paid downroute. They have compared our salaries to those of LCCs when we are a premium airline with a different clientele.
Not relevant - you are still, ON AVERAGE, massively better remunerated for your service than your competitors. Yes LCC's do have different clientelle but
more and more business people are using them for their European short hops in these times of austerity. BA may be "premium" - but it is now totally eclipsed by many of its competitors - a fact not realised by many CC and it would seem that the post industrial working atmosphere between striking and non striking CC is hardly going to enhance the customer experience.
I think management is aiming for us. It is very rich of WW to mention our salaries considering he's making almost £800000 a year. He's making more money than the President of the United States.
Not relevant. He's CEO of FTSE Company - what should he earn - £25000 a year? Hasn't he also given up his bonus for the last two years?
He has managed to turn the entire company against us cabin crew. He has completely ruined CRM. That is something which will take years to recover.
That one is priceless. BASSA is solely repsonsible for this. Think back to June last year and what was on the table - or didn't BASSA tell you? Your industrial action has not, and will not achieve your aims. BASSA just keep digging and digging.
We are responsible for the onboard service......
Yes correct. That's where your job descriptions ends. The fact that BASSA seems to think it has a
direct say in the day to day running of the airline needs to be addressed.
BASSA has totally and utterly botched this IA since the outset. Refusal to negotiate (endorsed by a show of hands, no?), Union reps refusing to sit in the same room, failed court cases, not turning up to meetings, telling its members that ST would be returned (why aren't they hammering on the High Courts doors then?), ever increasing numbers of staff deserting "the cause" and returning to work.
It's over. If a ballot comes back with a vote for further IA I can see WW going nuclear with SOSR - his patience must be exhausted - why bother delaying the inevitable when all you ever hear is "No No No"?
A4
PS As for the hot towels.......... poor babies
