Interesting point about the illegality of the strike is that should it be upheld by the CoA today, then the strikers will have been on an illegal strike and would have lost the protections of the law wrt to dismissal being automatically deemed illegal. The breach of contract would have been an individual act and so BA could decide whom it wished to sack. They could cherry pick those they wish to get rid of. Instead of sacking everyone they could just sack those who were on strike for the whole period of the last strikes, ie both the 3 and 4 day strikes. Anyone who went on strike for some of the period could be spared, allowing the most militant strikers to be got rid of. BASSA and UNITE have really screwed up on this one.