Mildly Militant,
You are badly informed.
As Chigly mentions, BASSA actually WENT ON STRIKE in 1997 over the new entrant starter rates.
As for cuts in some variable payments like overtime? Misleading, because, apart from the car mileage payment (of which we were the only work group left at the airport still receiving it at the time), most, if not all the other cuts in variable pay, were actually added to our basic.
BASSA went on strike then, because letting BA employ new crew cheaper was seen as "the thin end of the wedge" and these "cheaper crew will be a threat to your jobs" (sound familiar).
Betty Girl
I agree with you totally re part time/transfer lists. Few people are more critical of BASSA than me, but if true, it's a mistake by BA as it gives BASSA a great opportunity to crow about BA walking over agreements.