With regard to the disciplinaries. If a union can decide it does not like the result of a disciplinary procedure, do they have the right to blackmail the company to achieve a change in the result. Is this not Industrial Bullying and Harrassment in itself? ie an attempt to force one's will upon another body? BASSA cannot bleat about a lack of democracy and then use bully boy tactics the next. How would BASSA and UNITE feel if another union decided that they would go on strike to overturn the result of a disciplinary hearing?
Disciplinary and grievance procedures have all been agreed with the unions well before the strike started. To decide you now don't like them does smack of a baby throwing his toys out of the cot.