Th Blu Riband, I stand corrected on the demand for the reinstatement of all the sacked and suspended. That would be impossible. This dispute has brought out the best and worst in us all (myself included) and some people have no doubt done things that are worthy of sacking and even police investigation.
Duncan now wants ACAS to deal with them which I think we are all satisfied with (except a few notable BSSSA supporters no doubt?
Yes, I am angry.
Angry at BASSA for not recognising earlier we needed to let the Company be able to manage without needing the reps approval for every little change, not recognising our agreements needed to be simplified and more user friendly. They took me by surprise at the amount of effort and ideas they had when asked for the savings, I was relieved as I believed it would all be amicably settled. You may have your world view but I believed the imposition was a deliberate attempt to undermine my Union's right
to collectively bargain for us.
I was angry at the pilots but as I have mentioned before there has been little dialogue. I have now had a chance to talk to pilots who volunteered and I do understand they were genuinely fearful they would loses their jobs in BA's 'Fight for Survival', with the airline being about to tip over the financial abyss. My anger has now passed and I always still socialised as I take people as individuals. Ironicly some of them have expressed a little anger themselves that we survived strikes and ash clouds and managed to post a profit and then pay some pretty hefty fines.
Most of all I am angry at myself for appreciating what our Union had won for us over the years but not being more actively involved. A modern Union has to allow business to change, grow, succeed. I believe both sides have learnt and with new faces coming into power I sincerely hope we can dust ourselves off, pick up the pieces and emerge from this period wiser.
Are you angry with me? If we can't bury the hatchet (preferably not in my back) then we will never heal the rifts. I can see we are never going to agree as you don't seem to grasp why I went on strike. What I will say is even you have a Union and with the merger of 3 airlines you may find yourself relying on your Union to protect what it has won for you.
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I was referring to the FRAUD policy which our own managers were telling us to uphold.
Non compliance could mean gross misconduct, instant dismissal and possible police prosecution.
The line regarding fraudulant upgrading of friends or employees was originally in the policy and our managers told us were to uphold it or face dismissal and police prosecution.
Once they decided to remove that line the policy no longer applied to upgrading and our management changed their guidance to the Cabin Crew. I am still a little uncomfortable with suitability of some of the choices but I do not question, I only obey.
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