BASSA has tried to demonise pilots over the VCC issue, and indeed have a history of demeaning and belittling pilots.
BASSA has acted in such a fashion that a highly educated and unionised workforce have been so incensed by the irrational acts of BASSA that they have decided that they would rather help to try to break a strike than to support it. This is true of many workers within BA who are in many cases members of UNITE. The selfish and stupid attitudes witnessed - I'd rather see the company we all work for go bust rather than give an inch - have lead to a situation where union members of the same union would take active measures to break the strike. This is not just about pilot VCCs, indeed the pilot VCCs are significantly outnumbered by VCCs from other areas of the business.
Public and indeed workmate sympathies have been lost, and lost to such an extent that they have transformed into active anti-strike actions. The strikes are not only unjustified but that the issue has been so badly handled it has turned other workers against the strike. That is what this tells us, not that the poor CC have been in some way victimised, rather BASSA has made them into an unloved and marginalised minority.
This is a huge shame as the CC are hard working and dedicated and have played a large part in helping to make BA what it is today. BASSA on the other hand seems to represent everything that is backward thinking and wrong within BA.