You are right. Management at BA is not very good at all, but that is not a defence for intransigence.
BA will only survive if it maintains the quality of its people. You cut the pay, you cut the quality. It is as simple as that.
Again, I ask, how do you defend that statement in front of your LGW colleagues?
Can you provide any concrete remuneration and operational flexibilty figures for Lufthansa, AF-KLM and Iberia that are based wholly on fact and not rumour?
Do you really want to look into Singapore / Cathay contracts, and compare the service provided by them to the service provided by BA? I'm not sure you want to go down that road...
We come around to the same issues repeatedly.