Seems to me that if Unite carry on down this road that the new government might start introducing legislation to restrict employees in "essential" industries in taking industrial action.
I certainly hope not, I don’t consider CC any more essential than a thousand other occupations that I could think of. Such legislation would just be a ban on IA full stop.
I dislike the often used phrase “key worker” which applies to the surgeon but not the cleaner that cleans his work place, applies to the police officer but not the person that services his radio, etc. Business is links, break any one at any height in the food-chain and it all stops or is damaged.
Yes aviation is important, but so are trains, boats, busses and shoes…! No special treatment deserved in my view.