The BA CC strike over losing one member of staff on some flights is a bit pointless but I whole heartidly agree with them for striking over new comers T+C being worse than existing contracts. If only aircrew did the same, pay to fly would not exist, neither would contracting. And how much more effective would striking pilots be, they can hardly train up office staff to cover..!
I was under the impression that, in the current legislative climate, a strike which was called over someone else's T&Cs (e.g. new joiners) would be deemed illegal and stopped in its tracks. This, I thought, is why BA's so called "new fleet" for cabin crew does not feature as a stated reason for their current dispute.
If so, I doubt problems such as pay-to-fly could have been solved so easily.
On the main question I have to say that there is no way on this earth I would be a member of Unite. I wouldn't even be a member of Balpa if it sheltered underneath Unite's umbrella.