Dismissals are now available to BA, if they choose, for all crew who took part in unprotected industrial action (about 2000)
Am I missing something here? Can these crew
really be dismissed for having taken part in IA that they understood to be legal at the time, but has been subsequently proved to be illegal after the event? Surely it is the union who must bear the brunt of retributions given it was their c**k up? If not, then this is a deeply worrying precedent for the future - nobody will be able to carry out IA without the spectre of being subsequently fired by having the action ruled retrospectively illegal. Misguided though they may be, the strikers have a democratic right to IA should the majority demand it (never thought i'd hear myself say it..)