What have Balpa ever done for me? Nothing, which is why I am no longer a member.
The previous, more enlightened, management at Manx/BRAL introduced a Personal Liability insurance that is apparantly being used by a former employee against the company in an action for wrongful dismissal, or something similar; so it works. Its introduction was reckoned at the time to have been an anti-Balpa move by the company which backfired and recognition followed shortly afterwards.
Balpa has demonstrably NOT been a sucess and we are now worse off than before, having been shafted by the BACC in a couple of little matters as well as suffering pay freezes, which are effectively pay cuts, of course.
It makes a mockery of the meetings arranged by the union before recognition and the vote. Personally, I prefer the dosh and the safety belt of current employment legislation, which seems to offer me at least as much as the union without the arseache. Oh; and the company insurance gives the final comfort.
oscar