Oval:
Your posts have an eerie echo of 'Well, the company has already set the pay and conditions for these new 'B' scales, crew want to join on them and it's not affecting us 'A' scalers, so what's the problem?' That is the exact reasoning that allowed 'B' scales. Every reduction in conditions or FTLs start off as a only affecting a small minority and are then used as a lever in the next major negotiations. If this is accepted EVERYBODY will be on the same conditions as the JFK base within 3 years...
Madness is definedas carrying out the same operation repeatedly with the same initial parameters and expecting a different result...
