This looks like BASSA's response:
British Airways has today, at 12:14 imposed significant changes to our working agreement, to save £140 million from your salary costs.
Bill Francis has confirmed this in an ESS email to all crew.
He will be imposing the following, on the 16th Of November; we must stress once again that these are PERMANENT changes.
* A New Fleet with separate pay, agreements, promotions and conditions will be introduced to cover both long haul and short haul work.
* One crew member - a purser - will be removed from all LHR Worldwide routes -767,777,747.
* A two year pay freeze on basic pay and all variable pay and allowances until 2011
* Removal of an additional crew member from certain designated flights
* Removal of a crew member from specified 777 long range flights
* Removal of a purser from LGW 777 to be replaced by main crew member
* LHR Eurofleet crewing levels to be reduced to LGW levels
* Single supervisor on all Eurofleet flights
* Talks to continue on the 14th October to press home British Airways’ requirement for flexible rosters and crewing levels after operational disruption.
We would urge you to consider this list very long and very hard; you are looking at your own future and your response will determine if this is to become the blue print for it.
Despite Mr. Francis’ incorrect statement, a number of these changes are contractual.
This is the first time that British Airways have blatantly imposed new terms and conditions upon us; you can rest assured it won’t be the last.
Your Union will, of course respond in due course, with guidance as to what will happen next.
For now though, we urge you to stand together, draw strength from each other; you are not alone, you are part of the biggest and strongest branch of any union in the country. Don’t become disheartened or fragmented with one group pitched against another; if you do we will lose.
If we stand by each other we will protect each others’ future.