Rosiegirl needs your support !
Rosiegirl has stood up and admitted that she is now in posession of some facts that were not prevalent a year ago. She is also aware, and so are most readers on this forum, of the disgusting wrath of the Bassa Secretary on his forums should you publicly disagree with him.
She was simply misled and misfed; that is not her fault.
The BASSA top table blatantly lied to the members at the branch meeting with over 1,500 members present, did they really think we wouldn't discover the truth one day in the future ?
We trusted that the information being fed to us was correct, we now know that the ballot for IA was based on dodgy intelligence.
After refusing to negotiate,(according to Unite as well as the High Court and ACAS , if I read the court documents correctly) , Bassa then told the members that it was the other side that refused to negotiate and will never negotiate their position ever again. We were told to vote for strike action in order to get BA back to the negotiating table.
We did what we genuinely thought was the right thing at that time; late 2009.
None of our colleagues voted for 12 days of IA over Xmas, why would they have? We were not consulted, asked, balloted or anything else on this issue yet it went out on national TV before BA were informed.
Then we were promised ST returned in five minutes, disciplinary cases to be washed under the carpet, no new fleet, samosas and a yellow brick road.
Amicus with their latest letter serves absolutely no-ones interests. They sided with Bassa after their existence was threatened by Unite and now are looking for members anywhere they can. These are the same Amicus people that stood side by side with Bassa at the last branch meeting before IA long after Bassa had refused to sit at the same negotiation table.
The crew community has taken a few punches and there are many bloody noses and out there; however, please take a closer look at what we have been subjected to over the last year or so.
The dilemma facing your average air hostess is not dissimilar to asking the child to pick sides and then sort out their parents' divorce for them (without legal advice or funding).
Off for a glass of wine, when I get back I want this whole mess cleared up.