ottergirl said:
It appears to me that neither side has any interest in negotiation or compromise. If no-one is prepared to move their position then no progress can ever be made.
Willie Walsh has offered to reinstate staff travel for commuters if Unite accepts the current offer. Tony Woodley dismissed this in his message to crew as "concessions ... for the relatively small number of you who use such concessions to travel to work".
However Unite, in their press release dated 25 March 2010 said: "Nearly one third of crew depend on the travel assistance just to get to work. Crew who commute to Heathrow from former BA bases in places such as Glasgow and Manchester which the company closed - and at the time promised financial help for those now required to travel to their new place of work - are hit hardest by this latest attack from their employer."
I think that Willie Walsh has backed down quite a bit on ST and it would be churlish for Unite not to recognise this.