The hourly rate is not necessarily a bad thing. If BASSA can get the amount spent on allowances by BA secured and redistributed as an hourly rate then the only people who will lose out will be the senior CSDs and others who have a friend in scheduling.
Go to any premium destination and the station staff will tell you that the same faces keep cropping up. The rest do the destination payment places.
The hourly rate does not need to be £2.80 it could be much higher, it all depends on how smart the people negotiating with BA are. Oops! I forgot the same senior CSDs who are screwing the system for their own benefit are doing the negotiating. So it will be a strike and much vitriolic comms: and at the end BA will still get what they want with BASSA failing once again to use change as a positive thing.