Have not had time to read everything so this correction might have been made.
People, most notaby Buster the Bear, have been giving the wrong impression of the GG dispute. The GG staff were not made redundant then replaced with temporary staff. That would be illegal, and if so the correct action would be to take GG to industrial tribunal, which would have forced GG to compensate the workers, in some ways an ideal situation for workers already holding some redundancy money, as their employer is clearly not doing well and their jobs not secure.
They were under threat of redundancy and temporary staff were hired in for the seasonal peak. This information is from the T&GWU website, if you wish to check it.
They then played right into the hands of underhand management tactics. Militancy leading to an illegal strike allowed management to legitimately sack those workers who had refused to work. Management look like being punished for going too far and illegally firing some not involved, but had they been more restrained those walking out might have saved them a fortune. If they had allowed union negociations to continue, with ballots for a legal strike, they would have been in a much stronger position.
The BA ground-staff action is just illegal, inconsiderate, disgraceful and a threat to the whole of British civil aviation, even to my employment prospects, in the end. Hope the lazy militants are fired, the hangers-on allowed back, to work a little harder for their pay and perks.