Unfortunately there's little chance of anyone taking grandad back indoors as the responsible adults are all pretending they're down with the XXXX cause. I understand it entirely - nobody wants to make themselves a target of the strikers bullying at work - but the problem is their silence bolsters the bullies belief that they are in the majority. On the chief propaganda website there's a thread titled "Your trip, your crew let's see who's winning" in which the militants can report how many strikers were on their last trip. It's remarkable that on many trips with 14 crewmembers rostered, many are claiming 10, 11, 12, even 14 strikers crewing the flight. A simple bit of maths would tell you that even using generous assumptions and BASSAs own figures for strikers, the chances of there being 14 strikers on board is less than 3%. What that means is that there are a lot of people fibbing on board about being on strike. The one cause for hope is that somebody has reported the more realistic claim that he was indeed the only striker on the crew on a recent trip, which suggests that once the non-strikers realise they are in the majority they are much more comfortable about fronting up for their beliefs.