BA Strike - Your Thoughts & Questions III

[nononsense frank]

Lightbulbs,

As was mentioned earlier by one of the posters here, It is completely ridiculous to think that these crew who got genuinely sick during the strike period will not expect BA to require sicknote from them. BA is not unique in asking for proof of genuine sickness during industrial action, and work unions including UNITE , UNISON, RMT, etc. expect this to be the case.
Furthermore, BA issued a warning not only to those crew who will call in sick during the industrial action period itself, but also to those crew who were off sick during the WEEK PRIOR to the start of the first period of strike in March, that if they do not return to work before the industrial action commence, they will be considered as strikers. With this warning in mind, surely it would have been a lot simpler and easier to get a sick note, than take BA to court afterwards for docking wages during the supposed genuine sick period. After all, if they have to resort to court/tribunal as “thousands”(according to the strikers' claim) have done, they will then have to provide this same proof that they were genuinely ill and if they couldn’t provide this proof, couldn’t then BA charge them for abusing the sickness policy in the first place?
Lastly, I find it completely laughable that BASSA demand BA to treat the sickness during the strike period as genuine while at the same time, they themselves, talk about wildcat strike action in the form of social sickness during the Christmas period. See link below
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However, cabin crew militants and officials have also repeatedly warned of "mass sikcies" and unofficial wildcat over the Christmas period.
So can they, in all honesty, blame BA to demand proof of genuine sickness?