as UNITE have not conducted a ballot of members, as they promised BA they would when they negotiated the latest offer, is there any reason why BA could not, once again, make an offer to non members of the union directly.
this would serve a few purposes, in that
they could claim the moral high ground by being seen to make an offer to the staff when the union have refused
they could get on-side the CC members who resigned from the union since the last direct offer to staff
they would be in a better postion to know who were still the militants in the event they decided to take any action against them in the future
they would screw up the unions count of eligible members, which is part of the reason that UNITE won't call a ballot date yet, as they want to be sure how many members they have -at least 1 lesson learnt from the previous ballot
i cannot see UNITE agreeing to any ballot in the short term if BA was to make this offer, as it would be in their interests to see how the staff reacted to the offer.
i would bet that the number of resignations from the union, backdated a day or two
, would be quite a significant number.