DD,
As you are so involved with all this.
If LHR goes on strike and LGW doesn't will that change the outcome? As there are 14000 crew at LHR and only 1350 at LGW.
Say LGW decide to strike along with LHR how will this change anything for LGW?
Shocking as your description of Mr. Lebrechts attitude is, you forget that at LGW we are already working these "eroded conditions" and have already set the benchmark. I doubt that they can make much more cutbacks at LGW as we are already operating min crew.
I am sorry for the predicament that LHR find themselves in but I am yet to see a persuasive argument as to why LGW should also go on strike. Believe me I am desperately looking for a good enough reason.
I do however sincerely hope that LHR prevail over the corporate giant maybe that will give us the morale boost that most of us so desperately need.
Hypothetically speaking: LHR & LGW strikes. TU magnanomously prevail over BA then what? TU forget about LGW again.
It's happened before and it will happen again.
Apologies for the negativity but BA does what it wants and in my very limited dealing with the union so far I have found the reps to be disinterested and completely clueless (perhaps I caught them on the wrong days, everytime)