biteme,
Can you see that BA needed to do something because over the years our pay has risen and this is because of clever negotiation by the union( actually cc89 did most of the negotiating) to get box payments and overtime for us.
What we now needed was a union that realised that our pay is inflated compared to others in the now more competitive airline industry and negotiated to protect those of us who are currently crew but enabled the company to take on new entrants on a more realistic deal.
That is why the company offered to bring in the travel payment in order that we would then be able to work alongside the new entrants. There were a few things that would also have allowed this to happen, like for example fixed links on E/F, working a bit later on our last day etc.
BASSA had the chance and could have negotiated and stopped New Fleet but instead they have been totally obsessed with CSD's not working inflight and crew compliments.
They have missed the chance to negotiate a deal where BA had new crew joining us. Instead of negotiating and looking after it's members it has been strike calling and actually making it alot worse.
Now some have lost their staff travel and New Fleet is hear bigger than ever and it is BASSA's fault in my view. They should have been properly negotiating and asking us what we wanted instead of offering 2 year pay cuts and 767 longhaul work on E/F which none of us wanted. Everything that they offered the company was all about protecting the CSD job which nearly all of them are. They have let all of us down.
I find it hard to believe that you could now be thinking of striking and putting your staff travel at risk and your job. Or are you one of these people that votes for a strike but then does not do it. Maybe this time you will just vote for a strike but then come in and work like last time. That's almost worse than striking. You let us down by voting to strike and then you let the strikers down as well by working.