Originally Posted by
Ava Hannah
l action. We are not asking for anything special except that our staff travel should be returned. Many, and myself included, greatly depend on it and it's not fair to say that we never should have participated in the strike as we knew that we would lose it. Should we have accepted a proposal we didn't agree with only to keep our staff travel?
Your problem Ava, is that by striking, you relied on the Bassa statement being true that they could regain ST with seniority. By being effectively unable to work unless you regain ST you are committed to an 'all or nothing' stance. Not a great place to be in when many of even your Bassa supporting colleagues are happy to achieve a solution on the BA proposal (with much tweaking) and are happy to wait for the courts to decide on the reinstatement of staff travel.
You must be worried.
BASSA did not participate in the negotiations on our pension deal but I think Unite could have reached a good deal on our behalf with KW. Probably a deal that would have been satisfactory to BASSA too.
This is just Bassa wishful thinking and a simplistic view of the situation. Bassa (and yourself it seems) believe that Willie Walsh is out on a limb on this, alone and isolated from his employees, leadership team colleagues and fellow Board members, and all it takes is for a big yes vote to finally oust him, KW will be the moderate who comes to an agreement (giving in to all Bassa demands0, the company will then continue as before.
It's simply not going to happen.