"that is totally up to the pilots who bothered to vote."
Umm yessss Josh, it was 97% of pilots who voted! Quite a few bothered to vote.
"I must say, the stupidity shown by many here is breath taking."
Yes Agreed!
"Running a "no campaign" is not effective representation."
Why? VIPA exposed flaws in the 'agreement' and the haste at which this was being pushed through and the conservative pilot group voted NO by majority. The majority saw through the company rhetoric to sell this EBA mainly on their own terms and decided that the first draft was too open-ended (clauses open to interpretation). Some were not happy with renumeration.
"Is it possible that they gave their yes endorsement after having been negotiating the contents of the document with the company over the previous12 odd months"
No.....not entirely. The company was pushing hard to introduce clauses that would impact heavily on lifestyle (conditions like airport reserve and others), quite natural for a corporate company to desire this as cabin crew do already. It seemed the company were steadfast for quite sometime and not willing to budge on certain items. They then reneged on some at the 11th hour to try and get the EBA over the line after a revolt by the pilot group. There were a few sweeteners as well during this time by the company.
"Having more than one representative body in the workplace allows the company to divide and weaken the pilot group, why would you lot allow this to happen"
Unfortunately.....that's life! It just proves that pilots need an alternative to one union. It's really a confidence vote isn't it. In an ideal world...............
