How lovely to once again publicly see the disunity (as described in the judgement of Holland J) between CC89 and BASSA
here. It comes only a day after CC89 wrote this;
A select group of senior reps from the joint negotiating committee will be meeting with Tony Woodley and Co tomorrow to discuss the way forwards.
And the next day we have this;
we, the AMICUS “branch of Unite” have, by personal communication from the BASSA Branch Secretary, been excommunicated from the BASSA negotiating team. In no uncertain terms, we have been told there will be no "joint" business from today.
So no more "joint negotiating committee".
That said they make the valid point that Dunc's blog now seems to be the negotiating strategy for the whole (striking) cabin crew workforce. Oh dear.
How we laughed
On a serious note however, I believe this is a very significant moment in this dispute. "Dysfunctional union" has been aptly demonstrated in the past 2 weeks. First a consultative ballot that was going to be endorsed wasn't- by either committee. Then said ballot was "suspended" and now CC89 and BASSA fall out on the whim of the BASSA branch sec.
I believe the latest BA offer has done exactly what it was designed to do. Split the membership, split the support but most importantly split the 2 branches.
Game over.