A Lurker: they have changed his contract and he has accepted it along with thousands of other ground crew - he doesn't like it but knows if everybody refuses there will be no airline - his contracts have been altered over the years to align with the ever changing airline world. This is much the same in terrible times - we are in the worst recession in living memory - people are being made redundant every day - why are you so blinkered - tomorrow you may not have a job to fight for.
When or if BA survive they may be bought out by another airline - Virgin for example as the share price will go so low that BA will become an easy target - do you think for one minute contracts are going to remain the same - no way - think about next year and the year after - the question is do you want BA to survive or not - its losing millions each week - the first law of business is cut your overheads - they are not asking for compulsory redundancies. All businesses want to keep their staff employed but sometimes things have to change to do this. I run a small business with 20 employees - this year they have been told no pay increases, no Christmas bonuses which they usually get and no elaborate christmas parties - do they moan and strike - NO they are happy to just keep their jobs and that is why we are doing it. If you give it now you can't get it back and its too late.