Providing contact details and staging a conference is just tokenism. They are hopelessly out of touch. What they need to be doing, if they want to be a union which actually represents, cherishes and promotes a profession from top to bottom, is campaign on issues which hinder efforts to get employed, ie scams and injustices, charges for applications, training courses that don't deliver what employers want, pay-for-MCC/type-ratings, jobs not being openly advertised, excessive taxation, unnaccountable regulation, the import of foreign pilots and aircraft, people paying to work, the forgotten flight instructors, the absence of GA from gov't transport strategies, the unfair transatlantic market, yada yada.
But, it's not just BALPA who don't do anything, virtually nobody else in the UK aviation 'community', including wannabes either as individuals or groups, is taking up the issues that effect employment prospects (or anything else).
This is a slowly-progressing project of mine...
