BASSA have always maintained that this dispute was never about a fight for survival and it was about breaking the union. Time has shown that BASSA were correct and that BA has been exposed.
Sadly this quote is the one which shows the lack of knowledge behind those who made that undoubtably hard decision.
BASSA were 'tasked', as all other Unions were, with coming up with cost savings in an atrocious economic operating environment. They failed. It doesn't matter how you try and dress up their 'offers', they failed. Thus BA imposed. This was as much for the reason that many other departments would sign off permanent changes until ALL departments had met their targets.
BASSA have failed, systematically, to enagage BA for change and have thus been sidelined. They call it Union busting, the rest of us call it about time that BASSA pulled its collective weight. View it how you will but shouting that others have a different viewpoint whilst only accepting that which is spoon fed to you by a rouge Union branch is asking for trouble.