Sounds familiar...
Just returned from a shorthaul trip today and some of the crew were highly emotional about the whole thing.
It seems crew have very short memories. They were marched up the hill only 2 years ago over a spurious set of issues and the union backed down at the 11th hour, but only after BA had been forced to cancel the flying programme for 3 days. That 'deal' involved delaying future annual pay rises for six months to provide the four additional increments. So, no new money from BA and all other crew funded the increments for the small number of people at the time who benefited.
WW said that time that if the crew didn't realise what they were doing voting for a strike last time, they sure as hell do now and there will be no sympathy for quotes after the event along the lines of ' we were just lead along by the union. We didn't really mean to bring the business to its knees'.
You have all been let down badly by BASSA (just as you were in 2007). Why doesn't anybody learn?? We have all had to accept change but that is a much better outcome for us than the route BASSA are now forcing you down. All the rest of us have a right to try and get you to wake up and smell the coffee because I don't want to go down because of a bunch of idiots in BASSA HQ.
Why is it always BASSA. The crews really need to wake up and do something about the current situation. It will not fix itself if the union think you'll support them in a lengthy and costly strike. BA and WW will not back down, that is for certain as they know CC will fragment very quickly, once the heat is on.