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Old 25th Mar 2011, 00:26
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Colonel White
 
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I think the time has come to look beyond the end of this dispute and contemplate how BASSA will be able to reconstitute itself. It is self evident that the branch will undergo significant change in structure as the various appeals to tribunals fail and members exit the organisation. The challenge will be to find people who are able to take on leading the branch. I suspect that there has been no succession planning, either that or those who one might have expected to take on larger roles have found themselves no longer in BA's employ. BASSA will need charismatic leaders who can appeal across the whole cabin crew community if they are to survive. People who truly represent the feelings of the membership. The trouble is that the roles have a lot of baggage and many will see this as a poisoned chalice. A starting point might be to reform the constitution, particularly on the issue of honorariums. Maybe now is the time to seriously consider paid union officials as opposed to lay members. It might introduce a degree of professionalism that seems to have been absent from the negotiations to date.
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