Industrial Action at Flybe?
Joined: May 2006
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From: Here and there
Flybe is turning into a first class joke of a company!!
- rosters delayed until next week.
- extra public holiday in April being used as a bargaining chip in the pay talks
- pay talks that are STILL running from April 2010.
- changing scheduling agreements as part of pay talks
- thats without doing your daily duties with numerous tech dashes and crewing trying to change the rules as they go.
- management that obviously don't give a sh@t abOut the employees, just counting down the days until they can cash in their share options and retire on millions while the rest of us struggle!!
I have work for and with several different airlines and no one else has this to start with, let alone have to try and fight against it all the time!
I just join the ranks of all the others that have quite simply had enough!!
BALPA are about as useful as soggy kit Kat!!!!
Rant over!!!
- rosters delayed until next week.
- extra public holiday in April being used as a bargaining chip in the pay talks
- pay talks that are STILL running from April 2010.
- changing scheduling agreements as part of pay talks
- thats without doing your daily duties with numerous tech dashes and crewing trying to change the rules as they go.
- management that obviously don't give a sh@t abOut the employees, just counting down the days until they can cash in their share options and retire on millions while the rest of us struggle!!
I have work for and with several different airlines and no one else has this to start with, let alone have to try and fight against it all the time!
I just join the ranks of all the others that have quite simply had enough!!
BALPA are about as useful as soggy kit Kat!!!!
Rant over!!!
L'enfant Terrible
Joined: Jun 2004
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From: The bar of Mumbles rugby club
Certain Athens-based crew have also not been paid allowances on their due date for the 2nd time running. Unfortunately no one answers the phones in flight ops admin after 1630.
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Joined: Aug 2010
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From: UK
DONT PANIC!!!! Its ok the latest email indicates we (Well Jim) has won yet another award no ones heard of! Uncle Jim is quoted as saying his very proud and has the best management team in the industry!
Anyone taking odds on the next ballots result?? Im in for a 90% turnout and 85% NO, although reserve the right to adjust the figures when the latest deal is on the table, or subject to operational disruption
Anyone taking odds on the next ballots result?? Im in for a 90% turnout and 85% NO, although reserve the right to adjust the figures when the latest deal is on the table, or subject to operational disruption
Joined: Feb 2009
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From: Tax free heaven
Perhaps the 'strong backing' of the CC re the 'offer' is due to the fact it will align us with the new cabin crew agreement? It would clear up the smoke and mirrors crewing pull to weasel out of giving a DP or ME or extend you, claiming you have no choice of refusing the extention. I seriously doubt the comany would budge on pay till a few hours from planned walkout. its their modus operandi.
Joined: Apr 2007
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From: Here, there, everywhere
Fair play to the union for pushing for sizable movement since the 'final' offer. I am really hoping it reads well when it hits the mat at Chez Lovejoy.
HOWEVER... Have we not missed an opportunity here? The company will shortly have to publish it's first set of financial information as a publicly listed company. No more fluffy figures, no longer can they hide the profits we all know we make, and no longer can they pull cash out of the business without shareholder say so.
Once these details are out, we will know exactly where the company stands, and how we have been doing. With no smoke and mirrors.
This proposed offer is to be published, balleted, and finalized just prior to publication of the end of year report. Is this sensible?
We have waited patiently till now, what's another month to make sure we aren't getting the wrong deal
HOWEVER... Have we not missed an opportunity here? The company will shortly have to publish it's first set of financial information as a publicly listed company. No more fluffy figures, no longer can they hide the profits we all know we make, and no longer can they pull cash out of the business without shareholder say so.
Once these details are out, we will know exactly where the company stands, and how we have been doing. With no smoke and mirrors.
This proposed offer is to be published, balleted, and finalized just prior to publication of the end of year report. Is this sensible?
We have waited patiently till now, what's another month to make sure we aren't getting the wrong deal
Joined: Nov 2005
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From: UK
Well from the rumours i've heard the pay side of the agreement will be staying the same. If thats the case then it'll be a no from me regardless of how much better the scheduling agreement is.
This has gone on for so long we all need to stick together and hold out for the deal we deserve. Do we really want to go through the same thing in another 3 years? We have the company where we want them, so lets make the most of it and sort it out now.
This has gone on for so long we all need to stick together and hold out for the deal we deserve. Do we really want to go through the same thing in another 3 years? We have the company where we want them, so lets make the most of it and sort it out now.
Joined: Dec 2005
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From: Ask crewing
If balpa or Flybe think I'm going to agree to a paycut they can dream on. I'll dump balpa and jump ship as soon as possible. All the dash FO's I know are absolutely fed up and completely skint.
BALPA are only as strong as we make them and if everyone resigns en masse and it sneaks through then that is not going to give them a mandate to ever go and get more which is what it would take for me to vote yes.
My main worry is the comfortable skippers voting yes and leaving the rest of us high and dry
Joined: Nov 2004
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From: UK
BA and Virgin have stemmed the flow of Flybe pilots resigning simply by including the type rating requirement on their recruitment...
Almost time to find out what the 'significant movement' is which the CC talk of... Bring it on!
Almost time to find out what the 'significant movement' is which the CC talk of... Bring it on!
Joined: Nov 1999
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From: Your Worst Nightmare
And how, if everyone was leaving, would that benefit us. Having a large number of PO'd FO's is a good thing at the moment, they're the work group with the least personally invested as under normal circumstances they'd be off like a shot. I can't blame them for that but because they are still here they are a group of considerable strength
Joined: Mar 2001
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From: Down a Tin mine......
Sorry but the NEW offer get's a BIG fat NO from me !!!, sorry but I need to be able to afford to live. It's allright for some of those cosy captains sat at the top of seniority or training Capt's on £60-£70k, and all they want is a improvment in lifestyle but for F/O's this offer is just a joke, we need to be able to live as well as having a improvment in lifestyle.