So, let’s talk about pay…
Most areas across British Airways (including crew) have already accepted the current pay agreement for 2022 amounting to a potential total 10% additional pay during 2022.
A very tough summer with increasing passenger loads, coupled with across the board staff shortages, have undoubtedly changed how that additional pay is viewed.
We have now managed to secure an improved offer for the remaining 5 months of 2022, of an additional 8%, giving a total increase in additional earnings for 2022 of a now guaranteed 18%.
Do we think you deserve more? Of course!
However, with an average private pay sector award for 2022 of around 7.2%, and public sector 3.6%, in that context 18% is an industry leading achievement.
Yet set against the backdrop of the last few years of pay cuts, cutbacks and redundancIes, it is perhaps understandable that it may not feel that way!
That is why we have always insisted that other positive changes outside of pay were also needed and why we have delayed balloting our members on pay, until these changes were secured.
Achieving that has taken a considerable amount of both time and effort. But we have now managed to secure an additional package of agreement improvements and lifestyle choices, to go along with the pay offer and are now able to proceed with our BASSA ballot later today.
If you have not received the ballot via email by Tuesday afternoon please firstly check your spam/junk folder, then if still not located email: survey@bassa.co.uk (mailto:survey@bassa.co.uk) with your name and staff number.
Unfortunately, this in turn means we have a tight time scale in terms of the pay roll cut off date of 12th August.
The improved 2022 pay offer is:
* A guaranteed 5% increase in pay from 1^st Sept 22. Consolidated.
* A 5% one off reward payment paid in Aug 22. Non-consolidated.*
* A guaranteed 3% increase in pay from 01^st Dec 22. Consolidated.
* An increase in both flying and short day pay
* Guaranteed market rate review (as part of pay 2023) for Maincrew, IFL and IFM pay.
* There will be an opportunity to direct some, or all of this, into the British Airways Pension Plan (BAPP). This will attract the additional 10% employer uplift. Please also be aware that window to do this is also short and you should check ESS for the cut-off date.
What does this mean in terms of real pay?
Rather than continually talk about improving people’s pay, BASSA has got on with the job of actually doing so – securing an increase in main crew pensionable basic pay from £17,000 to £19,305 in just 12 months.
Take into account the newly increased Per-diem and variable payments, it brings the average up to around £30,000 per year. You can use the table below work out your own increase CLICK HERE FOR THE PAY 2022 IMPROVED OFFER (https://mcusercontent.com/43b1fbad65b3cfc2d4d1766d3/files/557a740c-4423-2b89-4b86-187310641b11/Reward_2022_20072022.pdf) The
Additional HCC Agreement and Lifestyle Improvements
* Increase in Short Day payment to £50.
* Increase to Per Diem payments worldwide based on hotel restaurant.
* Agreed formula and annual review mechanism for the cost of eating.
* Reduction in hours before a long-haul flight.
* Hotel accommodation prior to long-haul.
* Single days off cap.
* Reduce maximum FDP on multiple sectors.
* Reduction in integrated short-haul and long-haul working block hours.
* New improved standby block.
CLICK HERE FOR THE HCC AGREEMENTS & LIFESTYLE IMPROVEMENTS (https://mcusercontent.com/43b1fbad65b3cfc2d4d1766d3/files/85d3b834-0789-c317-c00d-2ba3a90308e0/HCC_Lifestyle_Agreement_Phased_Approach_Final_07082022.01.pdf)
Be under no illusion, since the pay offer was made by BA, behind the scenes, we have been working incredibly hard to secure these additional improvements for our members.
If we could have got you more, we would have. But this is undoubtedly the best that can be secured by negotiation at this moment.
You can accept the total package offer, pay and improvements, or reject it.
If you accept the offer, you get the pay and improvements listed for 2022. If you reject it, you will not receive the pay or the improvements and as negotiations have already been exhausted, industrial action will inevitably follow and all that entails, to try to secure an improvement.
This is an achievement that two years ago no one would have thought possible, both in terms of additional pay and some important improvements that perhaps nobody was even expecting!
On balance it seems both sensible and prudent to bank what has been achieved and move on.
Remember that this offer is for 2022, pay negotiations for 2023 begin again very shortly. That said, ultimately it is our members’ decision, and you will of course have your own opinion.
What happens next?
That choice as always, is yours to make. Thank you for the faith and trust you place in us, your understanding and patience while we worked on securing these improvements on your behalf.
