It might be an interesting situation if Unite were to threaten the prosperous BASSA with derecognition unless BASSA changed its accounting procedures - change it so that BASSA show absolutely all their accounts to a professional accountant from a particular date.
It would seem to be a reasonable request from Unite, because BASSA readily admits to a membership of 10,000.
_ It would most certainly be a reasonable request because of the vast sums of money going into the BASSA conduit.
Of course BASSA would be free to choose to go with a different Trade Union.
But that would be sad.
_ Unfortunately BASSA have become a pariah organisation because of the awful image they had given to cabin crew by the well publicised antics at Bedfont.
_ Also the ambitions of BASSA are irrelevant to the Nationwide employment challenges that Unions are currently facing.
_ If BAASA negotiated with, for example, NUM (who have been "proved absolutely right" in their 1985 predictions) then even NUM might be reluctant.
_ After all it would be a poor thing for NUM to call a strike of cabin crew and then suffer the humiliation of seeing workers from a different Union (Unite) come in to work as strike breakers.
_ Workers of Unite successfully strike-breaking an NUM strike - no absolutely not!
So probably BASSA would have no choice but to employ a professional accountant.
"proved absolutely right":-
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