Let's see...
* New "Final" agreement put forth by BA
* Unite asks for time to ballot membership - offers to call of strike while they do this
* BA, worried the agreement might actually be accepted (!), says screw you, offer is off the table now
UNITE don't want the embarrassment of a strike, and would love to dig themselves out of the hole McWitless and BASSA have dug for them.
Steve Turner on a freebie to meet the Teamsters (honourable bunch, that lot!) is hardly going to help the
PR cause, is it?
BA want the strike. They want to demonstrate to UNITE, BASSA and any sheep that follow them that they will no longer put up with the CC union nonsense that has dogged the airline for decades.
Good for you Mr. Walsh.
Finish the job.