but we are ready for a fight nothing else to lose.
This is not true. Potentially you could lose your job, along with everyone else in BA. Now it is possible that something may arise phoenix like from the ashes, but you can be certain that that when the CAA publish their figures showing average CC salary for the new (much smaller) airline they will be much closer to Virgins' figures than the current BA ones. Yes, I am perfectly aware that this applies to pilots too. More importantly, it seems, to WWW etc, the IA's you are seeking so desperately to protect will be gone and CAP371 is all you will get.
Industrial trouble makers will be the last employed and BASSA will cease to exist - certainly the new airline will refuse to acknowledge the union and it will be a spent force.
WWW you quote champagne socialism very well but have learn't nothing from the era of great union power in the 70s. Where are the NUM now? Where are the great state owned companies that gave their unions power base? All gone, all failed to be competitive, all failed the test of time.
If a company does not serve it's customers well it ceases to exist. There will be no bail out of BA by the government, it is very naive to think it will. The economy is still lurching, why would the tax payer fork out millions to support one relatively minor employer in the London area? It makes no economic sense, we do not, unlike the banks provide a vital service to the economy allowing others to conduct business.
Think on very carefully about this nonsense and get back to the table with BA, without the attitude and talk. This stupid mantra of the company will not negotiate is just that - BA told you what savings they needed - you could have come up with any solution you liked to sort that. Instead, on an undemocratic "show of hands" BASSA refused to negotiate.
One thing is for sure, as the company starts to die the death throws will be painful. The radical surgery required to save the company will start and this small non contractual imposition will be nothing to pain that all of us will suffer - but the axe will fall on the CC community fastest, hardest and deepest.
If something doesn't change 2010 will be the year BA failed and people like WWW will look back on in their dotage as the year their cosy little world fell apart.