Another lurker here. The attitudes of some posters here remind me of the rants of "Red Robbo" in the big British Leyland dispute decades ago. I hope wiser heads will prevail and remember that the ultimate result of that dispute was the failure of the company. It still rankles with me that some union representatives almost seemed to regard that as a success! They were in possession of industrial agreements which were past their time, of which they were not prepared to let go. Intransigence in attitude used against a company in trouble can have only one outcome.
Negotiation is just that, some give and take is necessary to overcome (hopefully) temporary difficulties. I note that some BA employees have agreed to work unpaid/ time off without pay in order to help preserve the company for which they work. I suspect that some of the correspondents on this thread are not amongst them.
They may end up not having a job to protect.