What I find interesting is that BA have not countered this announcement with the numbers of cabin crew who took part in their own on-line ballot. I had suspected that the whole point of the ballot of non-union crew was to show that overall the majority of crew had voted to accept it - so maybe they didn't. Many people were put off by the BA ballot only having a 'YES' option.
It'll be a long weekend waiting for the next installment from UNITE.