You know the one difference between the unions & British Steel, British Leyland, the National Coal Board?
The unions are still here.
Wake up BA strikers, when you've killed the business, Derek Simpson, Tony Woodley & all the other barons will still be in their big fat jobs, with their big fat salaries, living in their big fat houses, with their big fat missuses & you'll be on the dole, scratching about for scraps.
If you don;t like your job, leave. If your boss is a prat, leave, walk away. Life's too short to get sold down the river on a hopeless cause.