Betty Girl is right......an offer is on the table, one which is extremely generous in my opinion given the circumstances, and Bassa should do the right thing and sign-up.
If their membership had read the latest offer properly, without Bassa looking over their shoulder whispering doom and gloom, and if they felt able to accept it in good faith, they could be looking forward to security in employment for the next few years. As things stand they do not have that security, thanks to Bassa. If, in three years, BA start to fiddle with the agreement, and in doing so betray that good faith, then that is the time to talk about industrial action, not before. Any more industrial action now will clearly be counter-productive and bring forward the demise of current agreements. Strike action has become futile in this current dispute. Anyone who thinks otherwise is delusional.
Staff travel will obviously still be an issue, but once the dust settles in a year or so, and industrial relations within BA are much improved with a much more rosy outlook financially as we emerge from the recession, there might be scope for negotiations between a 'New Bassa', (patent pending...... remember 'New Labour'......didn't they do well for a few years/3 elections? All Bassa need to do is replace DH & co with a Blair/Brown/Mandelson type team
) and BA to improve the situation as far as staff travel for strikers is concerned. Those who have lost staff travel will have to be patient on this one.....they will be in a much better position to get it back next year than now....it just isn't going to happen in the current dispute. BA have won this one.
This would provide the 'legacy' crew with an opportunity to prove to the rest of us just how good certain amongst them keep telling us they are, as they would in effect be in competition with the new Mixed Fleet.
The alternative is indeed 'doom and gloom' for anyone supporting Bassa