I think you will find that most of these "militant" crew are wanting what's best for the company.
I think you'll find the perception of every other stakeholder, pax included is that the militant members of BASSA want what's best for themselves.
Nobody wants to stand in BA's way for progress and grow as an airline.
Yet this is precisely what BASSA did by refusing to negotiate once their "offer" to save money was shown to be hideously overstated.
Everything else that has been lost by cabin crew has been a result of the continued losses while BASSA stuck their fingers in their ears and refused to negotiate. Had they accepted the need to voluntarily remove a single staff member in the first place, it would not have got to this point. This dispute could have been finished a year ago. Instead of which BASSA are now 'negotiating' a much worse deal, knowing that BA have them over a barrel.
Again, why do the BASSA LHR diehards think it is OK for LGW staff to work a little harder but point blank refuse to accept this themselves when financial circumstances made it an easy option (bearing in mind no-one was forced out of their job)?
As an independent observer in all of this, I can only surmise what most others think: That the ancient CSDs who populate BASSA are so used to putting their feet up in the office having grudgingly said a few hellos and filled out a few forms, that they resented having to go back to doing some real work - and were willing to use the threat of wielding a very easily led membership to strike, just to avoid it.
Incredibly selfish, and they have represented their membership extremely poorly as a result. The only thing I find hard to understand is why the membership have put up with it for so long, when the reality is that BA are aware of the need to keep their existing staff happy, and the only other thing they asked was that future crew be recruited on more modern and industry-standard terms.
I fear your "lack of trust" in the company is borne out of BASSA's tub thumping and hysteria - and I've seen it first hand with some BA CC friends of mine who refuse to accept there are two sides to the issues that caused this dispute, and I don't just mean "BASSA are protecting us and BA are trying to
us", which is churlish and naive at best.
And thank you for coming back to the thread, even if some of us may vehemently disagree with some of what you say; your presence here adds a worthwile facet to the discussion.