If BA wanted to get rid of BASSA why the fourteen seperate attempts to negotiate with them before imposition? Unfortunately even the moderates seem to subscribe to the BASSA version of the truth, one that was revealed as actually being highly untruthful in sworn testimony in court. The reason BA are dealing directly with Unite is that the BASSA leadership is simply incapable of dealing with BA in an adult fashion, as has been amply demonstrated in their tantrums, their refusals to negotiate, their creative use of mathematics and their infantile insults levelled at everybody in BA who isn't a BASSA employee. As a union they simply are not fit for purpose, unless that purpose is rabble rousing and whipping the angry mob up into a frenzy. Unite are the only union negotiating party with sufficient overview to realise that the strikes haven't been successful, that their impact is decreasing and they really have no strong cards left to play. BASSAs faithful seem hell bent on causing a strike at Christmas in the false belief that Walsh needs to come back to the table and offer them full staff travel and the return of the sacked, and the BASSA leadership are doing nothing to disabuse them of this illusion.