Airrage,
The decision on whether BA pilots will go on strike is taken by the BA cc reps after consultation with the line community, not by CD or the NEC (although it IS the NEC which gives the 'authority' - never refused).
You will almost certainly have the opportunity to go on strike this year as BA are adamant that the work currently being done by pilots on the Master seniority list is to be transferred to its subsidiary - BACE.
Your reps are adamant that the work must remain and so a punch up is inevitable since BA believes that BA pilots are a collection of windbags - good at complaining but reluctant to take action. We will all have a chance to stand up and be counted and you can count on me, despite having only a few years to go.
If this transfer of work is accpetable to the line comunity, then it can hardly objct when the EOG work is transferred in a few years time followed by the transfer some years later of the LHR SH work, etc.........
JF has many talents but attending meetings until they finish is not one of them - he is always sloping off early from cc meetings; goes with living abroad I presume.