Poke in the eye with a blunt stick eh?
Easterns interpretation of that?
Employee to provide own stick, employee to cover cost of stick being blunted, employee to pay for management to poke him in eye with aformentioned stick, employee to recover as unpaid time off.
Pay scale? Bmir first officer with say 3 years service roughly earning the same as an eastern captain. I kid you not.
I am almost certain that Bmir will become part of Eastern in the future. Maybe not straight away, Granite might be able to raise the funds, but whether they have the know how to survive is another thing.