Call me a BASSA-basher, but....
.....good-riddance, BASSA has been nothing but a dreadful, parasitic scourge on this once great company, which, in its final death-throws (BASSA), STILL wants to bring everyone/everything else down with it.
Perhaps our children's children will learn about this at school.....maybe they'll learn how, for DECADES, a few selfish and greedy individuals got together to brainwash the masses into doing their bidding; holding a Multinational FTSE 100 company to ransom, using the company's demonstrated and world-renowned good-will and generosity with regards to terms & conditions, pension and salary against it in the most disgraceful and un-British manner, threatening to bankrupt it rather than joining ALL other work-groups in desperately needed CHANGE.
Or perhaps they'll just learn about how the company that helped to design, develop and produce Concorde, bringing supersonic commercial air travel to the world was bankrupted and destroyed by 14,000 staff members who refused to listen to both sides of an argument that threatens their jobs and just did what they were told to by the handful of most senior cabin crew members who had most to lose from their minions educating themselves.
Perhaps once this morally corrupt, head-in-sand, self-serving, ignorant, unnecessarily aggressive, spiteful & vindictive union is overthrown, those Cabin Crew members sensible/enlightened enough to post on this site (once free of the OPPRESSION) will start a new union, from the ground up.
It's the only way. Some of the CC posting on here are clearly highly intelligent, reasoned individuals with a passion for British Airways, a sense of fair-play and the sort of can-do, pragmatic approach that would see the Cabin Crew enjoy a respected, esteemed, honourable and honest representation at the highest of levels within the company....your fellow colleagues NEED you. BA Cabin Crew DESERVE better than this!
The lies, the deceit, the mis-information, the scare-mongering, the bullying, the mud-slinging, it's all GOT TO GO. Start thinking about what kind of mission directive you would like to read from the next union reps....could you deliver better representation for your colleagues than this lot?
Remember that the current warlords suspended democratic election in the run-up to this 'dispute'?...well, when it's over they will eventually have to give way to the will of the masses and to democratic protocol and allow the elections. WHY NOT STAND FOR ELECTION?
Surely only a very small minority of BASSA members would want to re-elect the current reps (after how they've 'represented' you) over someone with a sensible head on some sensible shoulders? GOOD LUCK TO THE NEW UNION.
p.s. ask yourself why BASSA have (year-in, year-out) refused BALPA's olive branch, collaborative invitation of working together to gain strength in unity on the bigger issues? What (apart from dictatorial power) could BASSA hope to gain from poisoning its members against other work-groups in the company? Why do they perpetuate lies about the pilots that they KNOW aren't true? Could it be because people are easier to manipulate once you've encouraged, developed and aggravated their prejudices? Pilots?! Look how much better they get treated! It's definitely NOT because their union is better and actually represents them, it MUST be because they're getting one up on us!!! NO FAIR!!!!
...oh, and why, after refusing to join in on any of the big discussions (pensions/cost cuttings) does BASSA just jump in at the last moment (often without asking the members what THEY want) and try to copy the deal that BALPA spent months on? Pensions? Just give us the same deal as the pilots.....is that GOOD representation? Cabin Crew members may not WANT the same deal as the pilots, they may have different priorities!
As proved by the CATACLYSMIC failure to negotiate/represent, when BASSA lamely offered a small portion of the BALPA negotiated (over many months) cost saving settlement, the 2.61% PAYCUT!!!! Whilst this only made up about 1/3rd of the pilots cost-savings and so was woefully short of the mark and not at all thought out, surely the point is that THIS UNION IS OFFERING PAYCUTS THAT ARE NEITHER WANTED BY YOU, THE MEMBERS, OR INDEED THE COMPANY! Such representation need to be questioned and the people responsible MUST ANSWER to the people that pay the subs, you the members!
BY NOT VOTING YOU MIGHT AS WELL HAVE VOTED YES.
START A NEW UNION, STAND FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, STAND FOR ELECTION