SpannerInTheWerks
12 Feb - “Voting NO has (sic) does not necessarily mean that industrial action is inevitable.”
Err, up to a point Lord Copper.
What will drastically reduce the inevitability of industrial action is as near to a unanimous BALPA membership as possible sending a clear message to management that if reasonable terms are not forthcoming, then such action will definitely become inevitable.
The effectiveness of this process has been clearly illustrated on a far larger platform – the credible US threat of war on Iraq has forced Saddam to allow UN inspectors back after a four year hiatus. For sure, without the threat, no return of the UN would ever have happened.
May I therefore suggest that now is not the time for arguments about value for money of BALPA subscriptions or the attractions of the TGWU or IAPA. Now is the time to climb aboard and project some force. After you all win against your management you can indulge in such peacetime luxuries.
NB. For all hair splitters and tangent seekers, I’m happy to discuss Iraq in “Jet Blast”, not here.