CFC,
........but BA & BASSA have talked for 9 months - far exceeding the original deadline. Eventually to keep the company afloat BA simply HAVE to impose the cost savings. What other option is left? MORE talking?? How much exactly?? ANOTHER 9 months?? The company LITERALLY cannot afford to let this drag out, especially when BASSA seem unable to come up with alternative proposals that save the required amount.
I fail to see what more talking will achieve. The company needs to stem the outflow of cash & it needs to do it NOW! (Hence the original deadline)
You may not like imposition, but that's what BASSA/UNITE have driven BA to do - you cannot question BA's resolve to make the cost savings plan palatable to both sides, it's all very well documented and much discussed here.