The LHR CC pay and conditions have hardly changed since privatisation. Oddly enough due to feckless management in the past the BASSA Union has successfully stonewalled ANY attempt over the past 20 years or so to change LHR Long Haul terms.
What other airline pays a bonus if the Cabin Crew are late?
All other departments within BA, including the baggage loaders and the push back crews, normally some of the most difficult, have agreed changes in the current climate. Why should CC be any different?
BA doesn't want lifers in the cabin. BA want, as Virgin does, CC to come, spend a few years enjoying the job and then go off to do something else. A few 'senior' crew around to co-ordinate the service and the job is done.
Aircraft have gone from 4 pilots/navigators/flight engineers down to 3 pilots/navs/FE down to 2 pilots and the safety record has gone up. Why are CC so different? If it is such a momentous safety issue to drop 1 crew then why do the CAA set minimums well below the BA crewing levels?
Passengers today have, quite rightly, been venting anger at the crews in the run up to this mess and it will get worse.
Back down Unite and protect those other members of your 'umbrella' Union that will have to pay the fine when you get caught by the Courts.
This has NOTHING to do with CC, this has everything to do with a pathetic attempt to wrestle the reigns of power from WW.
Give it up and let the management run the company.