So if the money is so bad and the job so awful (nights away, etc.) why do it? If the money was that poor then BA would need to raise it to retain staff.
I have had well over twenty years to observe the intransigent, archaic industrial rules which BASSA have managed to negotiate coupled with quite extraordinary salaries. We are at the end game and it isn't going to pretty nor will BASSA ever be quite the same again.