Maybe Easy BALPA members should get together and organize a quick recruiting campaign at all the bases. After all, most non-members will be so because of sloth and apathy rather than because of any deep seated ideology. If the required forms are shoved under their noses with an answer required to the question “do you want to have a say in your own future here at easyJet?”, then most will sign on the dotted. If these forms are accompanied by a ballot paper, helpfully pre-marked with an X against NO, then you all might be on your way.
For all non-BALPA pilots, here are those easy steps in full:
1. Sign application form
2. Make out cheque for 15 quid or so (50p a day) for FO’s – bit more for Captains
3. Sign DD form for same amount monthly
4. Ensure helpfully provided ballot paper has X on NO
5. Err, that’s it…..
Hopefully, New Road would be able to quickly provide and process the paperwork without too many quibbles and also include the new ballot papers in the count without the traditional “shooting in the foot” ceremony of excluding them as they “arrived too late” or some other such nonsense.
There’s no “re-inventing of the wheel” here – it’s all been done before – just needs a modicum of effort and coordination.
Finally, if BALPA (ie yourselves) does not subsequently produce the goods, you all don’t have to be rocket scientists to figure out what to do with the DD mandates!