Not really over a barrel, if the membership votes no then we keep HTD.
Notice the letter says
"In order for the proposed changes to have contractual force it will require that the majority of the respective Prospect branches and a majority of PCS members vote in favour."
So if we take that exactly as it's written, that requires an overall majority of the membership to accept rather than a majority of those who return a vote?
Given the turn out for the pay deal, I'd say HTD will be around for a while yet, unless of course Prospect decide that's not actually what they meant...