Who is 'the horses mouth'? Are you seriously telling me someone in the management has told you that there is a better deal on the table but to get it you have to vote to strike? Somehow I doubt it. If there was a better deal on the table they would offer it during the negotiations and avoid the hassle of the ballot and all of the negative publicity attached to the strike. Unfortunately, unless it is a comprehensive no vote and there are enough you actually on strike to affect the operation, the company will simply run the schedule around you. Many in the union will then say 'what did the union do for us? It costs us money each month and they didn't perform'. They will then resign their membership and you will lose your bargaining power for the future. You have done well to get your membership up and strength in part comes from unity. However, unfortunately, so few of you could actually be bothered to return the ballot in your pay negotiations in the first place and, at the moment, united you are not. Take the deal, organise yourselves for the next round in 18 months, educate those with the power to vote to do so and come back even stronger next time. Many in the flight deck community are on your side. I, for one, would hate to see your membership fall to bits just as you are beginning to get organised.