Hula,
Sadly I think you are wasting your time with reasoned argument. I'm not even sure WSW is actually crew, as the rhetoric posted is more along the lines of that espoused by the SWP.
Unfortunately many who believed the 13 years of Labour to be a panacea of good fail to comprehend that the Goverments mismanagement of the economy and their financial rape of savings, pensions and personal allowances have left Britain in the mess it is in today.
Reasoned argument falls on deaf ears in this case. Even the erstwhile leader of the Labour party refuses to acknowledge the failings of his predecessors and the Labour opposition policies, those that they have bothered to publish, would have us trailing on the heels of Portugal, Greece and Ireland without the Euro safety net.
Public sector is good, private sector is bad. The SWP in a nutshell. They are the driving force behind the Unions now. They are the rent a crowd for the pickets in the past where no-one from the dispute could be bothered to turn up. They are the placard publishers and the number boosters at the demonstrations and marches.
BASSA can no longer argue on the original points of the dispute as the company surviving has proven the effectiveness of the actions imposed against BASSA. Now they have to campaign on whatever gets whispered into their ears by their paymasters.
Cohesive, adult, sensible negotiation? Between BA and Unite, possibly. Unite and BASSA? Not a hope.