Diplome, your comments regarding news are spot on. I’m very much a news junkie and would certainly agree that BASSA, in particular, need to learn some hard lessons about the way information is managed for their future. (Assuming they have one)
The fact that they use terms such as “private Facebook” speaks volumes as to their ignorance. Did they also not hang themselves with a single post from Malone on their “private” web forum?
Malone’s amazing Foxtrot Oscar communications to BALPA are now a matter of historical record and will remain forever. Gone are the days of writing a snotty letter that would have travelled no further that a few offices in distance at most. She thought it in LA, pressed send, and we were all reading it before she even had time to reconsider what she had written even if she had wanted to....
I’m far from convinced that the Unite and BASSA web page would have carried the details of the BA (now withdrawn) proposal were it not for the fact that it was out there anyway? –perhaps-
There are many, many lessons for all TU’s to learn from this affair, new communications rules are just one of them, let’s hope they learn them.