I know someone who trained as cabin crew with BA as a stop-gap before becoming a BA pilot. I was chatting to him to see if he had any extra 'perspective' on the dispute. His comment was that in his experience, a large number of BA cabin crew can be very 'sheep-like' and tend to follow the rest of the flock, or defer to ever is shouting the loudest.
I don't mean to post this in any insulting way, but I assume if there is a sheep mentality it would explain why things have got to the current state. The sheep have allowed themselves to be led to the field where they currently are grazing, the only problem is that the nice field is just at the back of the slaughterhouse.
