If BASSA had been smart and negotiated 14 months ago, there would have been no New Fleet, you would have had an extra ticket and a share scheme.
The longer this goes on the worse it has got for CC - each offer from BA is a little worse than before. The longer it goes on the more the company can take away from you. BASSA made this about union busting by presenting the company with a gold plated gift horse of an opportunity to break the union. WW did not look that gift horse in the mouth and now we are where we are.
BASSA had the opportunity to do what other staff groups did - to offer genuine savings achievable by small productivity changes. By continuing to say no, no, no, no without thinking BASSA has created this problem and is delivering to its own members the apocalypse they so feared.
Perhaps now more of the cabin crew will start to realise that the longer this goes on the more BASSA is hurting their own members in a desperate attempt to stop things that have already passed them by. CSDs are working on the trolley and the world did not stop rotating. The only thing BASSA are actually achieving is brand damage - gifting business to our competitors with lower cost bases. That is hardly a recipe for a long term, well recompensed job is it? This dispute will end and when it does how much damage will have been done by this union in pathetic and futile attempts to turn back the tide?
A constant refrain from BASSA is everything would be alright if the evil that is WW was removed from the negotiating process, this however should really be turned on its head - the BASSA leadership should be excluded from any negotiation and everything would be be better. Perhaps it is time for Nigel Stott, Lizanne Malone, Marcel Devereaux, Duncan Holley, Mark Everett et al to be sidelined for some people who can rationally analyse where the negotiating so far has got them and why.
This current BASSA leadership has presided over the marginalisation of their union. It has been made largely irrelevant by its own actions and has already seen its membership decimated. If the membership cannot see this then they only have themselves to blame. Loss of staff travel is the least of the membership's worries - their union is pretty much an irrelevance now to BA. Well done. Time for a change, perhaps someone who is not a CSD would be a start.