Well I dont think CCM's know any more than we do, they're notoriously unreliable. I just keep coming back to why now? Willy needs a industrial victory, the pension is clearly proving too difficult as they keep back peddling. BASSA are just stepping straight into the firing line. This way WW can attack a fairly divided workforce who historically will always look after number 1 when the chips are down (LGW is a case in point) maybe force a strike (and with EG300 it cant be a cowardly mass sickout this time) and probably win most of the important concessions whilst giving in on others. Saves the company cash and comes out looking all butch. Meanwhile he quietly complies on the pension which would have brought the whole company to a standstill for a long while preventing further trouble. You're a much easier target than the whole airline combined. BASSA's communications are so low on fact and so high on emotion I think youre talking yourselves down a very big hole.
Theres also a ridiculous amount of talk about things BA might try in the future, and not much about what the reality is NOW, all to get support for a strike. If BA really do propose 1 CSD and 1 Psr I'll be with you on the picket line but they haven't. Your reps are using a maybe, possibly threat of future demands to justify this strike, is that not a bit odd?? Its seems very much like the famous "45 minutes" for Saddams WMD to me a technique into scaring you into a made up conflict. Nobody talked about striking 3 months ago, it was only when the most militant turned up for a branch meeting and had a show of hands, and now they are doing their best Daily Mail impersonation to scare you into a fight that i suspect the reps are relishing.