Well....
It is rather sad to read all this. As a now-retired from Aviation potential SLF, - that is, a potential passenger who might pay money for flying with BA, rather than someone who might get paid money for flying with BA - I find it amazing that BA CC appear to want to join the UK dockers, miners, steelworkers and etc who stuck out for what their unions advised them to stick out for, and by doing so more or less ended those sectors in the UK.
I do not "have it in for" low paid CC, nor do I hold anything against the silent majority who probably want to do the right thing for the airline. I don't have a particularly positive view of some of the BA senior managers that I've met. However, I do object to the historic practices reported here.
Just to get at one fact - what is the current sickness level of lhr based CC? That is, how many days sick are claimed, on average, by those CC?