I hope that BA do NOT compromise on the basic issue of this whole debacle - BA management have the responsibility to manage the affairs of BA, not bassa.
My whole time in BA has seen bassa 'interfere' in the day-to-day operation of running an airline. This is a totally rediculous situation and has been exacerbated by weak management for many years. At long, long last we have a CEO that wants to ensure that management manage, not the power-hungry self-serving bassa reps.
THAT IS THE CRUX OF THIS DISPUTE - power.
WW MUST win this battle, and be seen to win the battle, for the 'city' and investors to continue to back us. The vast majority of BA employees want him to take drastic action against those people who have cost the company such a huge amount of money.
The only negotiating tool that the bassa clowns understand is the continuous threat of IA and WW must ensure that those individuals so intent on the continued disruption of BA are dealt with - permanently!!!!!!!
The total inability of the bassa clowns to 'negotiate' (please check definition in dictionary - it is a two-way discussion!!!!) has brought about what cabin crew had been concerned - New Fleet. Most of us have had a degree of sympathy regarding the possible introduction of a New Fleet, but that sympathy has now totally evaporated because of the total and utter intransegence of bassa reps, who have shown a glaring inability to to understand that the economic climate has changed for us ALL.