BA have consistently confirmed their deadline of 30th June. What is the point of having a deadline if you breach it simply because some unions have failed to reach an agreement by that time? The next time there is a deadline, nobody would take any notice of it.
It seems highly likely that the ACAS talks will give the ground staff sufficient time to dot the i's and cross the t's on what, from the sound of it, was an almost done deal.
BASSA, meanwhile, have led their troops over a cliff. The recent BA offering is infinitely worse than even the original Project Columbus proposals, that caused such outrage at the time. And BAs hand is strengthened since BASSA have already concede, via their own feeble counter "proposal", the principle of pay cuts and headcount reductions. They have badly let down their members, who have my sympathy. The next few months are going to be VERY difficult.
They claim their members are behind them. That is only because they have turned their backs on them.
