Ask your self why has the company walked away at the latest attempt to negotiate?
They are simply not interested and now that they have the public and the media on their side, why bother?
Why has the company not negotiated? All of the other Unions have managed to negotiate some form of agreed settlement. Why is it that BASSA is the only Union who would not accept anything that was put to them?
Why didn't the BASSA reps accept the NDA to allow them to have access to the confidential figures detailing the accounts that BA were operating under?
Why did the BASSA reps insist on temporary solutions for temporary problems and offer useless, ill thought out and inaccurate savings whilst demanding them back in two years?
Why, instead of actually getting to grips with the problem of change after 20 years of militant, unionistic bravado, did the BASSA reps embark on a campaign of personal slander against the company management?
The company have walked away from the latest attempt to negotiate because Unite/BASSA want to wind the clock back to Jan/Feb 09 and start with a 'clean sheet'. Too late. VR has been granted the crewing levels must be reduced as the company doesn't have the staff any more to return to the old levels and Unite have confirmed this. Why should BA go in with a clean sheet? Everyone else has, over the past 10 years, streamlined their operations, taken cuts, changed fundamental T's & C's and, in the eyes of the other Unions enough is enough. Time for BASSA to accept change.
BASSA want to have their cake and eat, like all the times in the past, this time however they want to have the cake, eat it and then force BA to bake another one so they can trough that too.
Time for change!