Just a long-term blue-sky thought for those in BASSA who are calling for those who didn't support the strike to be expelled (or leave voluntarily) from the union.
Working on that principle could, eventually, lead to a membership size in BASSA that allows BA to de-recognise them as representative of the cabin crew workforce.
The following numbers are back of a fag packet but bear with me.
Roughly 80% of crew in Unite voted in favour of a strike. For simplicity let's say there's 12000 crew in Unite. The 20% who didn't vote/voted no are now to be expelled. So we'd be down to 9600. Or possibly less if one could ascertain who voted yes but went to work. Let's favour unite and say that one's zero.
So now you have a BASSA where, for this issue, all members are singing off the same hymn sheet. What happens at the next big industrial issue? Can anyone in BASSA say, with hand on heart, they'd support the next issue without knowing what it might be. If the majority of that 9600 return a vote for strike, will the non-strikers and breakers be expected to leave again? How far could the union diminish itself into a coalesced core of militancy before it establishes its' own irrelevance?
As I say, nothing more than a musing on a what if, but, what if?
MrB