I hope, hope, hope for everyone's sake BASSA/Unite pull their socks up, and there is no strike!
you and your colleagues
ARE BASSA. The only way of avoiding a strike is a
NO vote!
Willie Walsh has said it himself - he expects a strike.
(was it also you who said "like lambs to the slaughter?) the problem appears to lie with long standing reps who have no other strategy than saying 'NO!'