Trade Union representation
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Trade Union representation
Hiya,
I know that this is a bit of a strange topic, but I was just wondering what the trade unions at other airlines are like? You know, how popular; effective and powerful they are?
At BA there are two cabin crew unions: BASSA and Cabin Crew 89. BASSA is by far the bigger of the two and is extremely powerful. Cabin Crew 89 is quite substantially smaller and not so effective.
Personally, I think trade unions are essential in our line of work - and the more millitant and hard-line the better.
What do you guys think?
I know that this is a bit of a strange topic, but I was just wondering what the trade unions at other airlines are like? You know, how popular; effective and powerful they are?
At BA there are two cabin crew unions: BASSA and Cabin Crew 89. BASSA is by far the bigger of the two and is extremely powerful. Cabin Crew 89 is quite substantially smaller and not so effective.
Personally, I think trade unions are essential in our line of work - and the more millitant and hard-line the better.
What do you guys think?
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At our airline, we have T & G and CC89; couldn't say which one was more popular, although the majority of people on my training course chose to sign up with CC89.
Haven't joined a union yet, although open to being convinced of the benefits. I think it would help if either of the above could produce a catalogue of instances in which membership of one union or the other worked to the member's advantage.
So far, only the offer of free legal advice looks vaguely interesting.
Haven't joined a union yet, although open to being convinced of the benefits. I think it would help if either of the above could produce a catalogue of instances in which membership of one union or the other worked to the member's advantage.
So far, only the offer of free legal advice looks vaguely interesting.
