The following posted above, about BASSA:
Wouldn't take up the offer to sign disclosures allowing them access to the confidential BA accounts. Accounts that would have given them the opportunity to brief themselves fully on the state of the finances.
I have a sneaky suspicion that the BASSA reps don't have anyone with the financial acumen to examine and understand BA's accounts. That is the only reason that I can fathom for them having avoided even
looking at the accounts. They just couldn't face the embarrassment of having to admit they didn't know what it all meant?
Given BASSA's style of the last couple of decades, it seems to have been thought that the foot-stomping tantrum, fingers-in-ears type of 'negotiation' was the
only method going. Consequently, during that period, BASSA has only attracted reps who are entirely devoid of the skills required for adult negotiation. Some unions employ outside experts to do the specialist digging for them, and that can be expensive, which is why
some professional union subscriptions are a pretty substantial proportion of salary (unlike BASSA's subs). Perhaps BASSA couldn't bear to spend any money on this, and perhaps they quietly
knew the answer it would produce? Hence they resorted to the 'la-la-la, I'm not listening' school of 'negotiation', which has apparently been so useful to them in the past, but this time has caught them with their knickers down.
BASSA have been showed up for the limited intellect they actually have! Serve them right!