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.
If this man is such a Svengali, why is he not in a position of major importance, e.g. a senior politician?
Research shows that most employees consider their line manager to be the be the most accurate source of information about their company (even if they do not like the information.)
So why should BA cabin crew be different?
Litebulbs makes a very good point, which I quote below
Do any of the posters on this thread believe that individual members may have taken a view that they do not believe their employer, regardless of what the union brass say?
The evidence supports at least a few thousand taking this view.