Even before today, if you had put BA's previous proposals, next to Unites latest proposals and asked a person outside the airline, with no knowledge of the dispute, which proposal was BA's and which the union's, i would bet good money that 9 out of 10 people would have guessed the reverse of what is the case.
Today, with BA's latest (withdrawn) offer, that same test would, I have no doubt, have a score of 10 out of 10.
This whole sorry episode is a history lesson for any students of IR of what misguided loyalty for loyalty's sake to a union can result in.
Union members now pay a union to look after it's own wellbeing at their expense.
That is why I am no longer a crew member with union membership, for all the risks that involves as an employee.