NACUD = BA management. Or, just another BA hater. Classic stuff. Blame BALPA for the Danair debacle then say "management must have the right to manage", and screw every BA pilot from here to kingdom come. And if you think it wont affect the Independants then think on. Once Open Lies becomes the Trojan Horse BA plan it to be, every UK airline will adopt a similar tactic and away go your T and C's too.
This is not quite yet a Fascist Country. The right to strike is just that, a right in a free society, rightly governed by rules to see that it is the view of the majority of a work group. BA pilots have that right and have shown great reluctance to exercise it. Of course John Torrode and other Journalists at the Daily Mail with an agenda to run will demonise pilots. Ignoring their political agenda is the best tactic.
BALPA does not have a track record of militancy and has, in the view of many, acted with restraint and diffidence for years. This is the BA, after all, who blew ALL staff bonuses on an $850 million fine for price fixing, or so it is alleged. How do you deal in good faith with that? The answer is now that it is quite clear that you can not. WW wants a fight with his most loyal staff group and now he has got one. I believe he will lose, just as he did at Aer Lingus over the Belfast basing argument, another piece of classic attempted "union-busting".