@ deeceethree ... in any Industrial dispute, tempers get elevated. It is the inevitable result of a collision between two implacable organisations. In this particular case, a Company in semi-terminal fiscal decline is in collision with an implacable Trades Union which is apparently committed to bringing the Company to ruin.
This is, apparently, a win-win situation for the Union. The end result will, if the Union achieves its objectives, is that BA fails to recover the massive losses currently being incurred. As a result, the Company collapses, along with the living of tens of thousands of employees [direct or indirect]. The direct impact on the BASSA Executive/Council or whatever the upper echelon call themselves, is debatable. But that is still perceived to be a "Good Thing".
This is also, apparently, a win-win situation for BA. If things work out correctly, the Trades Union that has hindered any financial restructuring to save the Company may possibly become history. That may actually save tens of thousands of jobs, and possibly allow BA to re-establish itself in the upper echelon of airline carriers. The direct impact on Mr Walsh and the Board of BA will be to have achieved what they set out to do - run a profitable airline.
[I have Degrees in Rocket Science and Statements of the Obvious] OK - I may have exaggerated a bit.