MissM,
You say that the Union Facilities Agreement should never have been taken away from Unite.
It wasn't.
The reps at a regular monthly meeting, handed over a letter stating that they were withdrawing from it. A manager, that I know well and trust implicitly, was at that meeting and said that the managers there were totally stunned, when they were presented this. They just couldn't work out why the union would do something so self defeating.
I think BASSA's members should insist on seeing the minutes to this meeting and demand an explanation as to WHY they did it, because it's that that's stopped the reps being derostered or having any imput into product development etc.