As per Pilot Pete.
Birmingham Victoria tax office told me the same thing. I can't see how the IPF can get a tax concession & BALPA can't unless the IPF facts are incorrect?
NOTSO, BALPA works very well for some companies, such as BA. If you are employed by such a company and are in BALPA you will get a completely different service to what my company has received from them.
We are a BA franchaise with BALPA recognition and over the last 2 years we haven't even received a pay increase in line with inflation
We don't expect to receive one in the near future either. We were told that we couldn't operate our 737's where we would like to because we would be taking away jobs from BA pilots (under the SCOPE agreement). We have had absolutely minimal BALPA input even even with redundancies and demotions. Many of the pilots are quitting BALPA due to failure to do a sausage. Negotiations appear to be through our unofficial pilot reps.
So NOTSO, I hear what your saying and appreciate that we can all take it or leave it but at the end of the day from where you are sitting BALPA is a useful aid. For us, we can not even say that its performance is poor, for it has done nothing BUT it is ultimately 'Hobsons Choice'.
There I've said it got it off my chest, I shall say no more about BALPA performance.
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