A lawful withdrawal of labour is one thing Litebulbs, but as you are well aware the conduct of Unite/BASSA has gone well past that. Many of their actions have questionable legality.
If they had conducted themselves with dignity through this process there would have been no
PR requirement for BA to "deal" with them.
However, through the conduct of BASSA/Unite during this dispute, customers need convincing that we will not be flying with CC who exercise such poor judgement that they consider it acceptable to behave in a manner witnessed over the last few months.
Failing to deal with the strikers would discrimanate against all the remaining skilled, loyal, hard working BA employees in my view. I don't think that would be an unreasonable approach to take, should it come to be argued in Court.