unite
hippenine may well have hit the nail on the head: tony woodley's comments on PM yesterday struck me as being somewhere between 'measured' and 'half-hearted'. it has been mentioned before, but not at great length, that unite has to keep in mind its relationship with other unite branches in BA. comment here suggests that other unite members in BA are less than happy with the antics of the cabin crew members of bassa and amicus.
no doubt those unite members will have made their distaste known to their reps and the reps will not be unaware that some vcc are their own members. in other words, members 'distaste' has been translated into positive action to support the company against another section of the union.
we keep thinking that this is coming to an end, but perhaps this time it really is. potential strikers, like missm, must weigh the further loss of travel privileges against the projected benefits of a further strike when they have been told clearly by tw that the first strike achieved nothing and what has been offered is 'the best deal available''
short of telling them rudely that they can't go back to woolworths, how more clearly does he spell it out if they prefer to believe ex-staff members who run their branch?