Having followed all of this I really don't understand what it is all about.
Firstly BA and the unions started to negotiate, but the Unions were not willing to sit in the same room as each other at ACAS (as documented in the court case). The court case also highlighted the Unions cost savings were not as large as initially claimed.
BA fed up with this imposed a change in staffing levels and work requirements, to meet financial targets.
The Unions decided that this was illegal/wrong (your choice), but it was shown in court that this was legal, and in line with the agreed contracts. The Judge, despite basically throwing the Unions case out of court as baseless, even pointed the Unions in the direction of what needed changing if they want things like this covered by the various contracts.
The Unions then decided to strike over imposition. An imposition of terms they were willing to accept?
Why not enter negotiations and say you are willing to accept the changes, provided the relevant contracts are changed to require agreement in the future? In other words use the acceptance as a goodwill bargaining tool?
Then they strike. The offers get worse. They still strike. They are told they will lose Staff Travel if they do, and are surprised when they lose Staff Travel?
Then an offer which is pretty similar to the original offer is on the table (except now with New Fleet), and they will accept it, but want Staff Travel back.
Member of senior BA management on a online forum (taken from thread on here) says that if they accept the deal, then BA will restore Staff Travel without Seniority, except on 1 route, where they will restore it with Seniority (to appease commuters). But some CC don't understand this/trust this/or something.
But in essence the CC are in a worse position than before the strike, with a similar offer on the table, a New Fleet being introduced, and pax avoiding BA now. This forces the company to have to make MORE savings, so putting more pressure on ALL areas (CC included) to cut MORE costs, and to speed up the introduction of New Fleet.
And CC wonder why the public isn't on side - they went on strike over the legal imposition of conditions they were willing to accept!!!!!!
Personally I hope the moderate members accept the offered contract, and then BA uses SOSR on all those on the original contracts.