I am at a loss to understand what Woodley thinks he is doing! Perplexed in fact. His use of words like bullying, referring to WW, is ridiculous. Each utterance is puerile and simply makes himself look a fool. It is Unite who is the bully here, with their mates from BASSA. Woodley is showing all the signs of his tactics when he was the main irritant in the car industry. He was a lousy negotiator then and a worse one now.
To refer to pilots as "scabs" because they are vcc's is indicative of man who has a bag o' nails but lost the hammer. He and Simpson have no class and no real idea what they want to say. I don't think they even know what they ARE saying. Pilots and engineers, and many others ready to support the company, are the cream of BA - and so too are VERY MANY of the cc. But, with BASSA still beating people around the head and resorting to childish taunts only turns the remains of a supporting public against them. How clever is that? How clever is their style of picketing when they behave like children at a tea party.
Cabin Crew are decent hard working people who love their job and their company. Yet here we have DH and LM imposing their kind of evil will on decent girls and boys for their own ends. Saying NO to every kind of negotiation is plain stupid - unless of course it benefits the militants.
The threat of summer strikes is probably a union breaker. How Woodley can think otherwise shows his mentality. The cc will not be able to sustain continued IA and must have a job that brings in good money - they have that. So when the cruel realisation of the consequences hit home, they will have to wonder what BASSA means anymore.
I agree, that WW has a handful of cards to play. And think on this if you will. He has the skills of a great many legal eagles, managers and operations people at his side who can curtail any further attempts by BASSA and UNITE to destroy BA.