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you asked
I guess the management is free to do what they want,or so they have demonstrating in the past few months, so why not going ahead with it,even without BASSA consensus if they really wanted to? because that's not what they wanted.. that would have not interfered with our terms and conditions so why not going ahead irrespective of the union?
The answer is simple. BA management do not want to give BASSA any oxygen. By doing things in a measured, reasonable manner,they prevent BASSA and Unite from screaming 'Unfair!' I suspect that BA management know that they can ride this out. BASSA on the other hand desperately need to demonstrate that they are doing something for their members who have lost out by striking. The longer it goes on with no progress, the more dispirited they become. BASSA's credibility is shot. They have signally failed to achieve anything for their members apart from loss of income etc. By not being antagonistic BA management have robbed BASSA and Unite of any cause for a further ballot. They have ensured that the union have no justification that would garner widespread support from either cabin crew or the wider union membership within BA. Back in 2007 Willie Walsh warned Tony Woodley that he needed to get BASSA sorted out. Woodley didn't and this is the result.
We will wait and see what the court of appeal come up with.