Wurblestim.
You miss a delicate point in your ramblings. The diference between imposition and a negotiated settlement; the difference between union busting and a resolution that doesn't mean going to war with your staff is this:
1. You do not spend months training strike breaking staff from other departments.
2. You intelligently break down the dispute by using disenchanted cabin crew who want to leave anyway, by offering severance as a carrot.
Walsh has 'balls'ed up' and should now pay the consequences for the damage he has done to BA rather than being rewarded with the position of CEO at IAG.
Walsh's predicition of structural change as an excuse to force new T&C's on all employees at BA, was as inaccurate as O'Leary stating that only four airlines including BritishRyanAirways, would be left in Europe after the recession.
What were the figures that BALPA were shown 15 months ago? They do not bear any resemblance to the situation now with business so good, aircraft are being pulled out of the desert. BALPA and its members in BA were duped into giving up pay, based on false accounting. So much for "intelligent negotiating".