Originally Posted by
diut
Bassa and Unite are collaborating for a better future for actual crew and future crew.
Better than what/when? Prior to the strikes, or now?
It seems that many BASSA members have forgotten what this was all about in the first place, and are indeed ignorant of many of the offers that were made along the way, but rebutted without a 2nd thought by their esteemed leaders. More seems to have been lost than can ever be gained now. And whatever maybe "gained" will no doubt come at quite an astronomical price. But that'll all probably be spun into a huge victory by BASSA in their efforts to remain in situ, and fed to the members who seem unwilling to question the hand that starves them.
As to collaboration, with BASSA & CC89 admitting that they are not privy to anything that has been going-on between TW & BA recently, that's very hard to see.
Therein lies the problem of belonging to an organisation that is tied into something bigger, with possibly differing objectives to those that it purports to represent.