Yes CaptB but also within the IFCE dept they have now inbuilt a cost saving process that they can revisit as and when BA want. All they now have to do is to offer part-time or a redundancy package to us old contracts whenever another cost saving round comes about (and we all know that will happen again).
I've been through enough changes in my working time to know that the priority is preservation of salary.
Who was it said that the perfect equation for productivity was to halve the workforce, pay them a third more and get them to work harder! I think thats the numbers. The times they are a changing!