Your refusal to either engage in any meaningful way or negotiate a mutually acceptable agreement on contractual matters as well as industrial agreements is unacceptable.
Lurker,
Remarkable. BA could have written this exact statement to BASSA's leadership. That's what's going to make it such an interesting court case.
The big question is who has got the evidence to back up their case that they DID attempt to engage and negotiate, and who has got mountains of evidence to say that the other party didn't?
Hmmm, having your own union brethren complaining about your lack of participation. Refusing to even start talks because it involved "watching a presentation".
And so on.
If this lawyer that's "lethal" has all this ammunition to play with, I pity the claimant who has got to sit in the witness box and face him in full flow, if that's the case.
Mind you, even if it's just two QCs trying to convince a judge, you still get a feel for which way it might lean.