Joining BALPA
HF 13,
My advice is join. I have been in the business 25 years, give or take and my experience has been that people(members) who have needed assistance have had a satisfactory result. You will never be able to please everyone all the time but from what I have seen I would not recommend you go without the appropriate representation and that is an absolute if your company has a recognition agreement with BALPA. Dont forget that one person's view of a just or unjust cause can be very different from the reality as seen by the BALPA lawyers so it is important to understand that the union are careful with their members subscriptions, so they should.
I recommend you join.