Just a thought .............
BA's questionnaire may be a precursor to BA justifying laying-off CC when the time comes.
It is clear now that positions have become entrenched and therefore way beyond anyone's ability to change striking CC's minds by reasoned and factual argument. These CC are blindly following their leaders who, as we all know, will only settle when power over the control of BA's IFCE operations is returned to them.
It's kind of the opposite of the Union's strike ballot whereby only the militants vote so are always in the majority of votes cast. In this case the questionnaire will only be returned by non-strikers verifying that what it will take to end the dispute is largely met by the terms in BA's current offer and thus representing the majority of questionnaires returned.
This would open the door to BA using the same tactic as the Union but in reverse to claim a resounding and crushing majority of questionnaires returned in favour of the current (or even a slightly modified after reflecting on the feed-back received) offer while, most importantly, not appearing to be encouraging CC to leave the Union.
The axe can then be dropped justifiably on the heads of the militants.
The militant's hissy-fits in jumping up and down stamping on their questionnaires are thus playing perfectly into BA's hands. What they should be doing is returning them with clear, well enunciated and erudite reasons to end the dispute, however, it would sound just a little too grandiose to write "when, as CC, I am given the control powers of the CEO over all of BA's operations!" so they'll choose not to return them instead.
Last edited by AV Flyer; 18th Dec 2010 at 16:11.