It's a difficult call this one. Any workforce will fight to keep the most favourable conditions, but unfortunately for BA WW crews, the tide is totally against them. The airline industry is nowadays based on the low cost model (no just in the sense of no frills on board!) and BA WW crews are the only UK aircrews working under very dated and inflexible terms and conditions. The market forces demand that airlines have minimal costs in order to survive such a competitive field, and what was right for crews in 1993 is no longer true. Other airlines have proved that you do NOT need 4 pursers on a 747 and a "CSD", for example! The CSD role.....no comment.
Why have WW crews allowed the rest of the BA operation (regions, LGW, overseas ground staff) to take huge cuts, while they sat back and counted their pennies? Now they are under threat, they expect everyone to come running to the rescue - guess what, people won't.
Harsh words? Possibly, but change is around the corner in one sense or another. Food for thought: in view of other regions/airports taking massive cuts, what do LHR crews propose they can do to make the operation more cost effective? Are crews actually prepared to do anything?