From the Unite plea to working cabin crew quoted above:
" If the same number that broke the strike before do so again, then it's
over; your union has been destroyed..."
A quite amazing admission which will only serve to reinforce and reinvigorate BA's view that this episode can be ended with a few more heaves. How can this be the same union which only a few weeks ago was claiming that BA's contingency plans to keep flying were "a work of fiction", then that only 26 crew members broke the strike and that half the fleet was parked at CWL & SNN whilst many of the rest were positioning around empty?
Shouldn't there be an explanation somewhere between these statements as to why the union had been telling large porkies to its members in repeatedly denying BA's operational figures?
It is also interesting that they are now unashamedly characterising the struggle as for the survival of the union, and by implication its leadership, rather than the future employment of the individuals whom it has led into this appalling fix.