Well when I first joined balpa colleagues told me it was a waste of money. However I thought I would give it a go and see how they would represent me when I needed them. Well I've been very disappointed as they negotiated me a three year pay freeze and with inflation that's a 7% pay cut!! Nice one balpa that's really worth 40 odd quid a month subscriptions, so I have given myself a1% pay increase thank you very much. The bottom line is unless you are in BA mainline then they are pretty ineffective.
Just a note to brain fade, you got flight duty pay but lost your night stop allowance and the company are now saying they want to stop disruption payments cause they can't afford it now they've given our big brothers a 20% pay increase. Let's see what the mighty balpa will do about that.