You have all missed the point I made in an earlier post, that tomorrow's (Thursday) ruling on the injunction brought by UNITE will be a watershed or landmark decision. It will be closely watched by all employers in the UK, and if BA can get away with imposition many other companies will follow suit. Am employment contract will not be worth the paper it is written on.
It is unusual, normally for financial reasons, for an employee or employees to take out an injunction against an employer. Also BASSA/AMICUS are asking BA NOT to do something.
If the injunction goes against Walsh, whose decision it was to impose, he will have no option but to resign. But of course he wont anymore than he should have over T5.
BA have been involved in illegal activity involving cargo and fuel price fixing, if Walsh is also proved to have acted illegally against his staff through imposition, his position is untenable. Also you cannot manage a large body of staff by confrontation. When asked by Len McCluskey to reconsider his impositon, all that Walsh repeated was "I have the right to manage" several times. He may be pugnacious, but this 'bunker mentality' is going to be his achilles heel. As Winston Churchill once said: "a man who cannot change his mind, is of no use"
He has completely the wrong style for British Airways and should really be running a low cost operation, rather than trying to turn BA into one.