Originally Posted by
LonBA
The writing was on the wall, despite all the rhetoric in this thread. At least cabin crew have guts, though a strike by them may jeapordize any agreement.
Get the facts straight, the meeting with BA and the TU's was arranged nefore Christmas. BASSA decided to arrange a T&G meeting to coincide so that they could argue that they couldn't attend.
Their sole reason for this is so that they didn't invalidate their running ballot by removing the pension issue from their mandate. They are playing this as hardball and 'we will not give in' to spur their membership into voting 'yes'. In the years to come, after BASSA have agreed what is on the table (without improvement), the myths and legends of BASSA spin will be portrying this as a great BASSA Pensions victory despite the other TU's weaknesses.
Thsi is the way BASSA/T&G works, spin without substance.