BALPA save BA money!
Come on SEPLA reps, stop being awkward with Iberia and follow the lead of your colleagues in BALPA! In a fine example of the spirit of collaborative working, BA and BALPA have agreed to sacrifice all the ongoing holiday pay that BALPA spent millions of pounds of members money on legal fees to win, and replace it with a single, communist-inspired wealth redistribution program which will remove up to £1000 per year from the income of those pilots who work to their contracted 900 hours per year, and instead use it to fund those who don't feel like working so hard, including managers and BA BALPA reps.
In addition, this conveniently removes the remote risk BA faced in being pursued by individual pilot employees for operating a payment scheme in breach of EU law, to the cost of BALPA members.
Our colleagues in SEPLA should wise up and see how it is done. Don't waste your time letting members vote on it, simply sign up to the deal and tell your members they agreed to it when they voted on an entirely different matter several months ago! Should any Spanish union counterparts need further advice they can currently find Il Duce and the rest of his BA Captains Council holed up in the BALPA HQ bunker in London desperately avoiding any questions from a hostile membership. For more information send an email to BALPA and make the subject: JPT (Judkins' Poll Tax).