TBF I'm not sure I'd describe the open skies stuff up as BALPA being "crushed" as a result of the OS dispute but it was a shot across the bows and it did appear from some subsequent goings on that perhaps one or two Reps became a bit "gun shy"....subsequently, slowly, "stuff" was negotiated away and/or was slowly being eroded (e.g. the roster bidding system) as a result of a pragmatic, non-confrontational approach and all that entails .
I think what is going on
now is the inevitable next step.