Although I never supported strike action, this is a terrible outcome for all of us concerned. BA wins by default on a technicality. Very hollow victory when it will only create alot of bad feeling and lead to inflexibility elsewhere. The only real winners are some very clever legal eagles.
Someone from both sides need to get together and create something we can both live with and allow us to get back to the job of flying lots of smiling 'bums on seats' on time to make 10%.