you wrote that...
The whole point of a strike is that it is a last resort of disgruntled employees and the final tool in their negotiating arsenal.
'Negotiating arsenal'?! Give us a break...you know as well as I do that the union did NOT attempt to negotiate with BA.
I put it to you that striking is the ONLY tool in this lots' 'arsenal' and it has proven to be monumentally ineffective and self-damaging beyond comprehension.
Please don't trot out the usual BASSA crap that they only want Willie to get back around the table...they refused to sit at it for 14 months (and way beyond the deadline) and when they did finally pretend to sit down and 'talk', they chopped the table up into little pieces and burned it along with their self-respect and any hopes that CC might have had that BASSA even wanted a settlement!