Len McCluskey, Unite assistant general secretary, said: "With a cabin crew of 13,500 does BA seriously think this handful of inexperienced individuals will be able to operate a service? BA would be far better channeling its energies into negotiation than pursuing cynical schemes to break its own skilled and professional workforce."
Perhaps Len McLuskey, Lala Malone etc should devote all their efforts to running a trade union, and to leave Willie Walsh to manage British Airways? There is an old folk proverb that says that one cannot ride two horses simultaneously.
Willie Walsh and his senior management team are more than capable of making their own decisions on how to run British Airways without Mister McLuskey's unsolicited advice. After all, Willie Walsh does not tell Mister McLuskie how he should run his union.
Come to that,
no one could tell Mr McLuskie, Miz Malone, or any other BASSA functionary anything: not the sadly misled members of BASSA, nor the TUC or even the ghost of Karl Marx. They have their fingers stuck firmly in their ears and are singing "La la la".
(Is that how Miz Malone acquired her nickname, btw?)