LotPax, there are many of us that would like BA to be able to summarily sack these dour, miserable old timers who are a blight on the airline and put so many people off flying on it. If they had been able to do that, then there probably wouldn't even have been a strike.
But to stop employers binning people just because they don't like them, there are things called laws.
Would these be the same laws that Aer Lingus had to abide by recently?
There is an old saying that "where there's a will, there's a way."