Whatever possessed them to poll the cabin crew on the voluntary redundancy list? That was BASSA's Achilles heel.
AS, its the mark of an amateur. Union reps who have risen through the ranks based on rhetoric and bluster, and CC who have a hugely inflated sense of their own importance and abilities will never be a match for senior business managers who run multi billion dollar companies. These underachievers will always end up being outwitted because they don't think things through to the end game.