"someone from the pro BASSA argument could just elaborate, succinctly, truthfully and without rhetoric as to why BASSA believe that they are the only workforce within BA who should stay on broadly similar terms and conditions to those from the late 80's, who should not accept changes to their pay structure and should not accept changes to their rostering and allowances, who should not accept that the economic environment the business operates in has changed when all others in the company have done so?"
1013 (approx) cabin crew left the business last autumn/winter. this saved ifce £127,000,000.
the new crewing levels save ifce £60,000,000 PER YEAR.
why should we accept further cost saving measures, a la mixed fleet?
bassa and the ba negotiating team spent weeks banging out a deal that would find the £60,000,000 last winter.
this deal is the one put to the membership, who voted reluctantly to accept it.a bassa rep mentioned that it would have been laughed out of the room by the union in the recent past. but bassa "accepted that the economic environment the business operated in was changing".
but the ba negotiating team, who had helped thrash out this deal, didn't count on little dubya dubya. the deal wasn't making the PERMANENT changes he wanted and he threw it out.
as for your claims that we are on similar terms as the '80's- pah.
i joined in the mid 90's. some of the antiquated practices we gave up in '97 include-
-overtime after 9 hours.(split duties were incredibly popular then!)
-travel to work allowance (29p per mile i think)
-if you are rostered a trip on two a/c type, you must only operate on one of those type in one trip, and position the other sector(s)
-16 crew on a 747. 13 crew on a 777. 9 crew on a 767 longhall.
-giving up a bid system if on midfleet and reverting to "autoroster"
- a "money back guarentee" that we would not lose out in the new system, which lasted 3 years, was negotiated
- the allowance system was re-structured, giving us payments such as back to back, or destination, to make up for our overtime losses.
how many other jobs can you work a possible 19hrs 15 mins with no overtime? thats what mixed fleet will be doing. outrageous.