However, this will not be a popular view on this thread, which seems to be oriented to villify one individual, who is the secretary of one of the branches of Unite, who does not even get to meet the BA team in negotiations.
A former employee who thought he could do what he wished and dump his rostered, contracted work onto his peers as he felt his Union work was more important. An individual who advised his Union members to refuse to negotiate with the company thus removing himself from the negotiating process. An individual who has managed along with the BASSA heirarchy, over many years, to persuede his members that the Union is the ONLY source of true information and that ANYTHING from any other source are fabrications of the truth designed only to destroy the Union. One individual who, through ill thought out missives, unsubstantiated personal attacks and inconsequential whispered rumours has even managed to get up the nose of his own Union paymasters. An individual who has an agenda against the company that sacked him and seems to reach a dead end when this conflict is over thus has a vested interest in prolonging the dispute despite the damage to his members.
I'm not surprised at the result given the reasons above. The company hasn't covered itself in glory over the past decade and a big olive branch is needed. However that cannot and will not happen while the cancer that is BASSA is still there wanting to control the company. For those on the outside as passengers it is very difficult to comprehend just how difficult BASSA can be. For those of us who have been rolling eyes at the intransigence of BASSA and the abject inconvienience they have caused over the years to our passengers through petty squabbles and outdated working agreements (disruption agreement 2 local nights rest for CC when FC can operate after 12 hours?) the removal of BASSA as a 'power' within the company simply cannot come soon enough.