..where do CC89 and the rest of the Bassa leadership stand with this new old deal? Maybe someone such as MissM could comment.
In Miss M's absence, I recall she described the last deal as "crappy". When we pushed her on this forum to say why, she amongst other things mentioned her concerns that the top-up pay was non-contractual.
It appears that this will now become (partly) contractual, so to be fair, that is some improvement, perhaps substantive improvement seeing BASSA were convinced BA were acting in bad faith and would remove anything non-contractual. It appears to me however that the rest of the "improvements" in the offered deal are purely cosmetic - BASSA gain nothing without a change in their own attitudes and behaviour.
Whether that's enough to change a deal from crappy to honourable remains to be seen. Personally, I think that if WW had offered this very deal, it would still have been perceived (and spun) as the former by BASSA
