and when you hit the 70-80% of Cabin Crew reporting as scheduled you are ready to talk, to both the Press and the Union.
BA would be in a position to meet the requirement of good faith efforts to settle the dispute, but they will be facing a Union that knows it does not have the backing of a significant majority of its members.
Unite/BASSA must negotiate reasonably because they are facing a deadline knowing that if an agreement, any agreement, isn't reached their entire house of cards comes down.
WW needs cost savings. Probably, when the dust has settled, he will table the same offer as he did just before the morons announced the strike dates BUT im sure he will exclude ST for the strikers and announce some redundancies. I suspect that now there has been a strike, many are expecting CR's. By the sounds of it, if its the militants that go....... BA will be a much happier place to work and the union will be much weaker as well.