kriskross
Re your post of 10 Feb:
Well yes it is nice to see such boyish/girlish enthusiasm for the job and I’m sure that we all, on occasions, feel as you do. However, these feelings must not in any way impede a realistic and imperative view of what you are all dealing with here, which is, “who has the power and how should it be wielded?”
You may all recall that your “management” had previously recognised that your company’s industrial relations were in a particularly parlous state and that disaster would result from continued neglect in this area.
Subsequently, as I understand it, ongoing representation has been made to “management”, proposing “win-win” work patterns as illustrated by
Few Cloudy above, which would make the company more efficient, more profitable and far more productive, with the significant assistance of “on-side”, happy aircrew.
Logic, needless to say, has followed the classic path and been summarily confounded by the obdurate refusal of your “management” to listen to anything said by you all, as exemplified by the “deal” recently offered, and which listening would have gone a long way towards easing relations and securing a very bright future for your company.
Why is this? Well my dear
kriskross, it’s because the world is full of egomaniacs whose raison d’etre is to exercise total, top-down control over all their subordinates and who insist that it’s their train set and therefore everyone will follow their laid down modes of operation – which are the best there are anyway because they were made up by the individual concerned!
And when the individual has made enough money and leaves, or the Teflon wears off and he’s fired, with the inevitable pay off, the employees are left to work in a vale of tears while he rides into the sunset.
Message? It’s your company not his – he’s the arriviste not you. You’re educated, intelligent, forceful professionals. Don’t let him destroy the train set - your working environment and livelihood. You’ve all put far more into it than him. Why should you all be talking about resigning and moving to Ryanair? Should it not be your CEO who should be considering moving on?
The answer
kriskross is that, yes it is – and you can all make it happen – if you drop your amateurish approach towards both your profession and the deadly serious politics involved here.
You all absolutely
MUST stop bickering amongst yourselves (remember the principle of divide and rule?), unanimously vote
NO to the opening “offer” and try to maximise your BALPA membership by a process of individual reason and persuasion (remember non-BALPA members of Easy, it’s your future you throw away if you don’t combine and it’s a shameful free ride you take if your BALPA colleagues win and immeasurably improve conditions for you while you sit back mute on the sidelines).
If you do the above you will be in a great position to
credibly threaten an opening 12/24 hour stoppage and also pay (through BALPA) for some quality
PR, to explain to the UK media that you are trying, through such action, against great odds, to secure the future of your company by improving its efficiency and profitability.
The employers of your CEO – the major city shareholders – will instantly take notice and place him firmly under the spotlight. If he remains obdurate and a short-notice 12/24 hour stoppage results, then the inevitable subsequent city nervousness will ensure that he comes under major pressure to accommodate your very reasonable aspirations.
An exercise in power? You bet!