Litebulbs - quite possibly. The company does have its sights on things like the redeployment agreement and careerlink. In an email last year, Bill Francis outlined what a new careerlink process would look like - 12 months only with a 25% run down of salary and severance payment every 3 months, with statutory redundancy at the end of the 12 month period if a job's been not found.
I believe there are still HR1's proposed in the PSU operation in T5 &T3 that have been put on ice for the present, as staff are presently needed to handle disruption. Also coming along are the head office rationalisations from the Iberia merger.
Change isn't going away. Most people in BA know this and there's going to be a need for negotiation to make sure it's done as painlessly as possible. BASSA are not helping the position of all the other staff unions in this respect.
Flap62 - good post. The No. 1 aim for every TU has to be ensuring their members have a job. No company, no job, no union. Wrecking a compnay on a point of principle has to be a gross dereliction of duty for a trade union.