Finally, how ironic that BASSA said in their newsletter that "we won't make the same mistakes as BALPA did in their ballot". Correct. BALPA didn't make a balloting error, you did. Rank amateurs. Talk a good game though.
The only post in this entire sorry thread that has made me chuckle....
romans44:
People may have different views of what has been said or not, who is being honest or not but the simple truth remains that over 91% of us belive that BA is not being honest
Untrue: a fair percentage of your colleagues voted YES out of loyalty to your Champagne Socialists or through sheer breathtaking ignorance of the facts. Meanwhile, 100% of the rest of the planet think you are, collectively, a bunch of spoilt, petulant and ungrateful teenagers.
Anecdotally, there is a lot of dischord among the BASSA membership, with many voting YES, but meaning NO, and not really willing to down tools.
BASSA/UNITE now have a bit of a dilemma on their hands of their own making:
1. Another ballot with a big YES vote will unleash the wrath of the public & the media again, and no doubt get the BA lawyers sharpening their knives again.
2. A NO vote, or a close YES/NO vote will see the Pigs at Animal Farm lose any remaining credibility within the membership as you will not be able to carry out successful strike action on a low mandate.
Whichever way I look at it, I see your union defeated. Either BA will get you in case 1 with the support of the media/public, or you're union will consume itself from within in the second case.
You're only hope out of this mess, with your union intact, but a bit weaker, is for you to tell the Pigs that they are, in fact, not in charge of the Farm, but merely mouthpieces, and that you want them to enter in to meaningful negotiation with BA as per SlideBustle and Tiramisu posts above..
It may well be too late, however. Willie has you firmly in his sights, and I don't think the other animals have a loud enough voice to be overheard from all the commotion going on inside the farmhouse...(Apologies to Eric Blair for the similies).
My sympathies. This will not be pretty.
It's time for the members to start thinking, rather than shouting, and it's time to start listening, rather than pouting.
And I'm a poet..