Collaborating??
Diut,
Thanks for joining the debate.... BASSA's latest update was that they had hoped to announce a strike ballot by today, in fact by 10am on 10/10/10 but couldn't because Tony Woodley and WW were having discussions privately at ACAS - and BASSA didn't know how those were progressing..... So how can BASSA/UNITE be trying to get a better deal for the crew if BASSA aren't even at the table????
I stand by my suggestion that BASSA are going to be recommended to accept any deal Woodley agrees or else go it alone.. As has previously been stated by others come 20th October UNITE is going to have the problem on 10,000s of public sector job losses to contend with.
Having held 29 days of industrial action at a cost of £150M+ WW is really going to roll over and offer you any deal which is better than that of June 2009?