BA CSD Suspended for incorrectly demanding hotel upgrade!

[flapsforty]

Interesting but somewhat unclear to a furriner.
Could someone be kind enough to enlighten me on the following points?

• BASSA is one of the unions representing BA cabin crew?
• It's BA that pays for the hotel rooms?
• Are the room standards something that is part if the negotiations between BA and the unions?
• Pilots have a noise clause in their contracts which gives the right to 'quiet' rooms, but cabin attendants don't?
• When the hotel upgrades people because their cheap rooms are all occupied, it's not the hotel itself but either BA or BASSA who believe they have the right to say who goes where?

As this is all very very different from the way we do things, it's rather fascinating.