To insinuate that the bmiCC's actions have resulted in the threat of lay off's is, quite frankly, scurrilous.
I don't think anyone IS insuating that - I'm certainly not.
However what I DO think , and what many people think is that the BMICC were focussed on the wrong issues and didn't see the elephant in the room.
I said it on the other thread and so did many others, that worring about seniority and staff travel and other t's and c's is 10 steps down the road. Suddenly step 1 has turned out alot different than they thought, however depressingly similar to what alot of other people thought it was.