Its a little kept secret that UNITE pressured every branch in and around the airport, in all trades to get their members down to Bedfont football club to show "support" for their cabin crew collegues, when this "support" was lukewarm, the free Tea and Biscuits not being a big enough carrot, all UNITE office staff, and anyone else for that matter were told to get down there (Bedfont) to improved the numbers for the cameras.
The mood within UNITEs HQ is reported to be very fraught, the strikes have been deemed a failure at the very highest level.
