fincastle84 - Yes, I agree. BA currently holds all the cards and thus has all of the Union's possible significant moves covered. BA does not wish to "bust" the Union as it requires a representative body with which it can negotiate future collective agreements, hopefully, in a mature fashion.
The Union is reduced to making sporadic petulant moves and statements which BA continues to field in a professional manner. The Union leadership believes the fight is still on and it can still "win" and, like all power obsessed people, will never step down or surrender until they are deposed which, as BA will not do it, can only be by the Union's own members.
BA's management and Board, the other non CC BA employees, the shareholders, its suppliers, passengers and the rest of the world as a whole are waiting for the apathetic majority of CC members to do what they have to do and depose their almost comically dysfunctional, ineffective and bickering leadership or establish an alternative representative body so everyone can move forwards.
But surprisingly, as it is to their increasing detriment, CC seem to be taking their sweet time in getting the message.
If reports of the increasingly unpleasant and vitriolic environment between fellow CC are correct then BA may have to precipitate something before long as it could be deemed culpable in allowing this environment to continue. Further, there is no doubt continuing damage to forward bookings and the costs of carrying surplus CC/VCC which it can't tolerate forever.
So, how does BA precipitate something without looking like the bad guy? I'm sure it would be only too pleased for the Union to have a ballot about something, anything even, if for no other reason than the Union's leadership would get a message from its members' apathy, as indicated by their diminishing turn-outs. But as we have seen, as long as two members vote in favour from a turn-out of three the Union's leadership, in its never ceasing delusion, will continue to claim a "67% monumental victory with resounding support".
Fascinating (but also frustrating) isn't it?
Last edited by AV Flyer; 27th Nov 2010 at 11:12.