Do you want to see an end to the dispute, or are you just enjoying the battle?
Both. The sheer farce and black comedy that are BASSA's "negotiating abilities" are the greatest free show on earth.
Lizanne Malone, Duncan Holley and the rest of the BASSA reps have been exposed for what they are: bumbling, inept and self-serving manipulators of the dues-paying membership. That is why BA was able to take advantage and to sign up non unionised cabin crew staff to the fairly lucrative settlement they now enjoy.
Those far-sighted men and women still enjoy staff travel and have retained seniority when flying as passengers. Can anyone say the same about the BASSA stalwarts, who are still baying for Willy Walsh's scalp to be nailed to the doors of Cranebank? What is BASSA doing to alleviate the problems of that woman who purports to commute from Johannesburg?
BASSA has painted itself into a corner from which it now has no escape. It is neutered, emasculated. Difficult for MIssM to comprehend, but those are the facts.
Which reminds me: why have we not been regaled by a florid and over-weaning account of BASSA's barristers' triumphs in Court 74 today? DH certainly found time to do that back in the winter.
And incidentally, Litebulbs, my question
Could be (no, perish the thought!) that MissM and her BASSA comrades have been out-manoeuvred?
is quite a valid one - even if it is too unpleasant for trade unionists to contemplate