Industrial action in response to sacked and suspended members. Nothing to do with the current dispute. If it was, then obviously, they were punished because of the industrial action, not for matters of discipline
As has been pointed out this reason for further IA is dubious and highly risky as it may lead to sackings. However, this was not the point that I was trying to make. CC89 talks about regular IA. What do CC89 do when BA ignores their IA and 12 weeks elapses? Another ballot? On what grounds?
For a strike to be effective it must be supported by an overwhelming majority of the workers. UNITE has found out the hard way that they do not have this support. They may get large percentages at ballots for IA but crucially they do not get an overwhelming percentage of their members that are actually prepared to strike. The ballot must have both a very percentage turn out but also a very high percentage voting for IA that will carry out IA in accordance with their vote. Voting is less important than action when the employer doesn't listen to messages sent by a ballot. If a union cannot cripple the economic activity of a company then striking is a waste of time and becomes more costly to the workers than the company - as BASSA has just re-proven.
CC89 may get all their members to strike but as they number approx 2000, it will have little impact on BA's operation. BASSA will be unable to help them as secondary action is illegal and will result in sackings.
For CC89 all of their ramblings are just posturing as their threat of continued or regular IA is a paper tiger. It is likely to lead to their members being marginalised and ultimately given new contracts - a "take it or effectively sack yourself" option.
CC89 used to have some value to BA as it split the CC work group and the two unions could be played off against each other - indeed often BA could rely on the stupidity of the two groups to shoot themselves in their feet. The BASSA/CC89 spat during this dispute has aided BA to an incredible extent and effectively allowed the imposition to be legal. This value is now diminishing with every new member of MF that is recruited. CC89 need to be a lot more savvy or it will cease to exist in fairly short order.
CC89 cannot go it alone, they have to act in concert with BASSA or they are history.