For those of foreign location it is worth pointing out that the above scenario is not legal for an employee in Britain. And therefore a complete load of tosh. Anyway it doesn't exactly dovetail with a quote from Bedfont today:
We want to keep BA as a premium airline. We're Middle England - we're Marks and Spencer, we're Waitrose. We don't want this to be a race to the bottom.
...but then again this whole strike has been nothing if not inconsistent.