The behavoir of BASSA throughout this affair completely defies belief. It is of no credit to them that they have lied to their members throughout and persued an agenda of minutae to force the company towards a strike. To assert that the other employee groups should be grateful to them for their advances in pension arrangements is a complete misrepresentation.

Those of you that saw Tony Woodley (T&G) in the joint press conference with WW might have gleaned from his inferences that he was unhappy at the way the BASSA reps had forced the issues and reverted to the pig-headed unionist ways of the 70's & 80's.

These dinosaurs have no place in this century. They should be taken to the knackers yard and be put out of their misery.

I cannot believe some CC think BASSA is telling them facts, while they are telling you lies. It is them who thought a pay rise was justified, while BA (LHR) crew is the most overpaid bunch in the industry, with a great number of people earning more then many many F/O's.

Without being disrespectful to the job, they have not gone through 3 years of full time training, they do not have a 60K+ loan to pay off, and let's be fair, if you want to get that kinda money outside aviation you'd have to work pretty fookin hard. BA cabin crew have nothing to complain about.

While the pilot's union got information of experts on the whole pension deal, BASSA just demanded without back ups. They are, just as the pilot's union, a promoted bunch of people on the job. They do not have the financial and basic understanding of running a business. If they did, they would've cared about the poor underpaid Gatwick crew as well.

BASSA lies, BASSA will always lie to get the back up of their members. Their statement and attack towards the pilots union and the pilots is purely aimed at creating a row within BA. Do not go near them, and if you are, stop wasting too much money and join a sensible union.

Just an outsiders view.

Speaking from a 20+ year LGW employee, BASSA is a LHR union. They only arrived down here after the (I want to say merger) BA takeover of BCal and in small numbers. Where do you think Cabin Crew 89 came from after the takeover in 88?

Not one single Cabin Crew employee is worse off today with regard to the BASSA BA negotiated deal, but a great many are better off. The changes that will happen, were going to happen anyway. Well done BASSA.

... except the extra paypoints only apply to LHR.

BASSA is a LHR union

Agreed. It certainly is!!

Correct. Today, they aren't. If any LGW crew stay beyond pp7, they will be then.

Well done BASSA???!
 

The average LGW crew is on a 1/3 starting basic pay as LHR. Well done BASSA, you looked after the LGW girls&guys by giving them an 11p pay rise an hour, 6 of which is inflation correction.

Well done BASSA, for getting 4 increments for some VERY (over?) paid CC at LHR.

Well done BASSA, for forgetting about 'that other side of BA' again. :ugh: :ugh:

I feel so sorry for LGW BA employees. It is a dead airport. North terminal is a joy to fly through, it has all the benefits of being an outstation with all the benefits of being a main base. The travel time from the city to either LGW or LHR is the same give or take minutes. Why would anyone want to fly out of LHR, apart from route network, amount of flights, destinations etc etc, I don't know. If only they could knock that bl00dy church down in Lowfield Heath and ignore the blue rinse set in Reigate/Charlwood etc, and get that second runway, then what an airport.

Unfortunately, no, that is not fair, luckily, it is a sea of orange now!