Ok, so BA BALPA allow the creation of a second payscale, to stop the creation of 'BA Express' - I'm not saying this is the WRONG decision, however....
If the SCOPE clause is now worthless under the IAG group, what stops the company next year saying... All new joiners must have no staff travel or we will create BA Express. The year after that all new joiners will have no bid lines or guess what? We will start BA Express. Or just plainly saying we are starting BA Express ALL join it otherwise redundancy is coming your way?
If the answer is nothing, BALPA has negotiated its way into insignificance, unless of course BALPA are getting a new SCOPE by accepting these changes.
Some people on hear have taken my comments as an attack on BA pilots, they are not, they are directed towards a union that is clearly no longer fit for purpose. Maybe my remarks belong on a seperate thread.
Last edited by FlyingTinCans; 6th Jan 2012 at 15:00.