The biggest problem in the run up to the imposition (1 crew member down on WW and EF!!! How drastic CSD having to take part in the service, heaven forefend!) was that BASSA consistently failed to accept the financial environment, they failed to realise that the changes needed to be permanent and, when their threats failed against the management they started on the Union busting trail.
Everyone needed to change, everyone else managed to negotiate changes including other members of the Unite group. Only BASSA, as usual, failed to agree and went nuclear at the very thought of imposition.
BASSA were offered,a long way back, the ability to negotiate MF off the table. As with all negotiations there is room for manoeuvre unfortunately BASSA refused to even start negotiation. So, the Union busting rhetoric comes from BASSA, BASSA has failed its membership through poor/absent negotition and now BASSA are scrabbling around trying to keep the dispute alive whn everyone else has started ignoring it. This continued action will only harm those who take part in it. BASSA could have prevented all of this but BASSA didn't want to.