Just checked out the Bassa forums and the mood is time for confrontation.
If that really is the case, as opposed to just the usual galley FM suspects spouting hot air, then stand by for the most succesful bit of strike-breaking the UK has seen since Grunwick.
Willy will crucify BASSA.
What is it that you will legally strike over?
What question can you put on the ballot paper that will stand up to BA's inevitable legal challenge?
How do you expect all those on the new LH fleet at LGW, or on new contract pay scales at LHR, to react when asked to strike?
What do you think will be the response from all those who've just finished an 11 month contract when asked by BA if they'd like to return?
None of them, IMHO, give a toss about the T & Cs of LH CSD's at Fortress Heathrow. In fact, few of them give a toss about BASSA and who can blame them!
What will be the reaction from those who have realised that, this time, "going sick" isn't an option?
A large part of the operation will be up and running within a few days of any strike, and as the pickets watch BA aircraft taking off and landing as usual, it will finally start to sink in to even the most militant cabin crew that they have no chance of winning any confrontation in the present economic climate.
At that point, watch the trickle of those returning to work turn into a flood and then a stampede as everyone rushes to reclaim their job.
BASSA attracted Willy's attention at the start of the year when they refused an alleviation and insisted on two local nights rest when BKK was closed, and then again later, during the mass UK diversions.
Even by BASSA standards, a blunder of monumental proportions.
Read the signs and take the hint, Willy is serious, start negotiating for the best severance and T&C package you can get, now!!
Oh I forgot, this is BASSA, so not a chance, they'll just say NO.
So many good, long term Cabin Crew, along with lots of excellent new ones, who all deserve better, being let down by a dinosaur of a union.
Lions represented by donkeys.