Bulb’s old bean, nope, I don’t agree.
By their actions BASSA have been the architects of their own demise. It never needed to be like that. By refusing to negotiate or view presentations on the company’s finances or cooperate with CC89 reps etc they rendered themselves irrelevant or certainly not a part of any constructive attempt to resolve issues.
They then lost the public with the 12 days strike.
They then further compounded this by making false promises (“staff travel will be back in 5 minutes”) and providing half truths (“you can’t be sacked for striking”) to staff and then finally topped the lot off by alienating other workgroups, pilots union being told to “Foxtrot Oscar” and slighting the work of engineers.
If, and I don’t agree it’s the case, but if BA’s original intent was to weaken, destroy, BASSA then BA couldn’t have had a better partner in that plan than BASSA themselves.
I struggle to find one single smart move from BASSA during the whole history of this IA. Can you think of one?