CHC UK redundancies/strike action/FSP
139 incident
I thought the Perenco 139 upset had been missed on here ?Aircraft shutdown offshore when pilot couldnt pull up the lever thingy between the seats - something to do with someone leaving something in the aircraft whilst it was in the garage being serviced perhaps???Nice mechanic had to put on clean overalls and go offshore to remove said object before pilot flew them all home for tea.Surprisingly Perenco werent too happy and stopped flying with N.Denes aircraft. Not sure if they have plucked up courage and are back with them again???BG
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One fact is for sure looks like a CHC BASHER !!! Bad History there somewhere ??
Bad history?? More like Bad present day actually!
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Don't go that route
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That is exactly what happened at Bristow. Several years later, they decided to scrap the DB scheme for the old hands. Surprise, surprise, there was not much support from the newbies when it came to defending the scheme.
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A better move to keep the workforce happy would surely be to honour existing employees their right to the FSP and all new employees a money purchase only option.
O.A.
Did i hear correctly that the unions in CHC Netherlands recently resorted to strike action? What was the outcome of that?
I believe it was the ground crew only, and a new CLA was accepted for 1 year.
The pilots have yet to negotiate.
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Manpower and strike action will always win over penny pinching management.
A strike will be hugely damaging for the reputation of CHC and its pilots. Lets hope it can be resolved without wasting wood on banners and braziers.
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For the management of CHC Scotia to advise the workforce that the Final Salary Pensions are up the spout just as they are holding a ballot for strike action over their equal time roster is hard to comprehend. Either they are not the brightest or are determined to force the issue to the bitter end where everybody, company, CHC pilots and the rest of us in the industry will be losers.
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We need to think very carefully about strike action. Remember what happen to the pilots who took strike action in GOM, and the airline pilots downunder in the late eighties. No winners there.
Oil companies would not hesitate to change companies if required, even if it involves some short term pain in service delivery.
TL
Oil companies would not hesitate to change companies if required, even if it involves some short term pain in service delivery.
TL
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FSP to be withdrawn from the end of August in CHC. As someone mentioned above, not the best time to be telling the workforce this news. Are management blinkered? Can't they see the bigger picture?
Oil companies may change the service provider but the pilots will, as usual, move to where the work is. It would seem that CHC have absolutely no respect for their pilots. As for the roster issues, a little bird tells me the company are willing to talk to the pilots again and see if something can be sorted out.
Oil companies may change the service provider but the pilots will, as usual, move to where the work is. It would seem that CHC have absolutely no respect for their pilots. As for the roster issues, a little bird tells me the company are willing to talk to the pilots again and see if something can be sorted out.
Are you sure this wasn't always a plan to get rid of the Final Salary Pension ??
Tell them you're gonna take away the Equal Time Roster, then announce that the FSP is going as well. Get everyone worked up, then when its all about to hit the fan, suggest that you might be able to give back the equal time roster and everyone feels more agreeable.
Its an old trick wartime doctors used when they needed to take someone's leg off. Tell them they need both legs removed, then once the full horror has had time to bed in, advise that they might get away with just the one, and suddenly things don't seem so bad !
Tell them you're gonna take away the Equal Time Roster, then announce that the FSP is going as well. Get everyone worked up, then when its all about to hit the fan, suggest that you might be able to give back the equal time roster and everyone feels more agreeable.
Its an old trick wartime doctors used when they needed to take someone's leg off. Tell them they need both legs removed, then once the full horror has had time to bed in, advise that they might get away with just the one, and suddenly things don't seem so bad !
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Surley now this is a case of no repect for the entire CHC workforce who are in FSP, perhaps the ballot should be expanded 
Letter on the mat with no warning, Classic tactics !!!!!!!
Letter on the mat with no warning, Classic tactics !!!!!!!
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Genst (and Ladies) the FSP was removed some 4 years ago. What we have in place is a DBS (Defined Benefit Scheme) based on a notional salary increasing in a controlled fashion each year. This step was taken to try and reduce the risks shouldered by the Company.
I an going to an Industrial Meeting tonight at ABZ and will be wanting to take action over the removal of the DBS. I am sure all my collegues are of the same mind.
What galls me most is the utter stupidity of the management. If they remove the scheme it is not available to them either. They seem adept at putting managers into place who continually commit commercial, industrial and persoal suicide in same miguided notion that they must save money at all costs.
I an going to an Industrial Meeting tonight at ABZ and will be wanting to take action over the removal of the DBS. I am sure all my collegues are of the same mind.
What galls me most is the utter stupidity of the management. If they remove the scheme it is not available to them either. They seem adept at putting managers into place who continually commit commercial, industrial and persoal suicide in same miguided notion that they must save money at all costs.
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CHC FSP and Roster
Any info on how CHC scotia pilots are responding to the change in working conditions that seem to be being imposed on them?
Has there been a ballot and what was the result if there was?
T4
Has there been a ballot and what was the result if there was?
T4
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A little bird tells me that the pilots were balloted on Industrial action and they virtually all said yes. Unfortunately, this has led nowhere, the company appear to be using delaying tactics again and from what I was told, even though the ballot result was last week, no-one has been told if the company were given their 7-day notice period. If so, strike action could start as early as Friday coming. It is without doubt that the management will be trying to string their decision out as long as possible and then this smokescreen (because that's what this is) will clear away and then the 'FSP' will be lost and the employees just content to get their roster back in place.
I only heard this from a 3rd party so don't shoot the messenger.
I only heard this from a 3rd party so don't shoot the messenger.
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I heard a rumour more meetings were going on this week, somebody must know more by now.
do you think any strike would just be up here, or spread around the country as well
do you think any strike would just be up here, or spread around the country as well
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Any truth in the rumour that a strike next Saturday is on the horizon? And if this is the case why pick the quietest day of the week to do it?