On the eve of what could be the most significant week of this dispute, the "Self Loading Freight" thread seems to be engaging in substantive and relevant discussion, while the "Other Thread" has descended into some nonsensical wittering about crew positions and the perennial soporific Captain vs. CSD as Manager debate.
While not wishing to over-egg the importance of pprune, I do get the impression it's one of the top five sites from which cabin crew glean the "latest" so it's slightly discouraging to see such a lack of engagement with the issues at hand.
Even the usually dreadful cabincrew.com has a few good posts, particularly by leo in this thread on BASSA Democracy:
CabinCrew.com: BASSA DEMOCRACY -HOW DOES IT WORK?
There is absolutely no suggestion by BASSA that the participants in next week's appallingly undemocratic "show of hands" (no doubt including a few children sprinkled among the masses, which couldn't be more inappropriate) will be given any advance notice of the offer BA has put on the table, and nothing substantive has been communicated up to now, either on the 10 reasons for dispute, or an how the October 2010 offer will be changed to be satisfactory.
If anyone thinks the BASSA leadership is aiming to resolve this dispute, then I want some of what they're smoking.
BASSA is playing right into the hands of BA Management and Unite, all at the expense of cabin crew, the monthly subs, livelihoods and working relationships. This level of incompetence will have serious ramifications for others who have a justifiable grievance in future, and is on the verge of impacting the credibility of unionism for a generation.