I think BASSAwitch requested the accounts info on 15 February; the accounts must therefore be produced by 15 March 2011, right in the middle of the ballot.
I hope BASSAwitch has already alerted The Certification Officer to BASSA's shocking refusal to produce such accounts, which goes against the Trade and Labour Relations Act:
BASSA wrote:
Dear XXXXXX,
Your request for the audited accounts of the BASSA branch of Unite have been forwarded to me by XXXXX XXXXX.
...
We have been told by the branch secretary that the accounts you are seeking are not available at this time. If at any time in the future they do become available for members and ex members to view, we will endeavour to make that known to you. As is common practice we will always insist that you view such accounts unaccompanied on Unite premises and in the strictest confidence......
In solidarity,
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
The Latest Issues from Bassa -
http://freepdfhosting.com/9a2aad3f14.pdf
Many of those reasons are connected to previous ballots (some are, indeed, exactly the same) so this action is certain to be "unprotected" and further could be illegal given that BA has already won a case for its right to impose a the "one less crewmember" the parallels with the imposition of Mixed Fleet after BASSA refused to negotiate on the issue are very similar indeed.
Intention to Ballot -
http://freepdfhosting.com/287a681774.pdf
Looks like Unite have at last attempted to get to grips with the BASSA recordkeeping.
Quite shocking that in the previous ballot 10,220 were balloted, having obviously gone to some effort to get the membership records under control, the number which will now be balloted is just 9,824.
That means 396 fewer or around 4% of the total, and certainly a material number.
It is likely that this is already out of date as many will have resigned from BASSA having being told to do so by Duncan Holley himself in his blog of 23 January 2011:
www.uniteba.com/LATESTNEWSUPDATES.html
As Unite has used data sourced from BA on 27 January, it is likely these records will not reflect any who resigned from BASSA following that outburst.
And, as a little bonus, proof, if proof were needed, that BASSA is stuck in the 1970s, a screenshot posted on another site of the BASSA forum after they wiped it clean to stop dissenting posts:
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/3184/bassa.jpg
I would agree with JT's post below that the latest membership record methodology does seem to be "reasonable", which should satisfy the ERS.