The lack of success with UK unions (ie BALPA) today in supporting the needs of its members is down to the disillusion of those members with the ability of the union to work...It is a self-crippling system, it is OUR fault. The law hasn't helped, but the legal system is nowhere near as restrictig to union activity as some would have us believe.
The problem as I see it is that BALPA HQ is expressly complicit in lowering the terms and conditions of all UK pilots by not addressing the exploitation of cadets by Airlines and Training organisations.
Were they not threatened with industrial action by
their employees over changes to their terms and conditions a year or so ago?
BALPA might survive within companies like BA but are haemorrhaging members elsewhere.
Useless.