I'm not going to second guess what will happen next. Something has to happen over the next couple if weeks and we'll know when any announcement is made, but the Unite leadership has evidently been caught between a rock and a hard place, a company that refuses to be kowtowed by militancy and recalitrant branches. Its reluctance to reballot was clearly in evidence when it pulled the rug under the "10.10.10" ballot announcement, thus denying BASSA a Christmas strike threat.