Betty
The reason that I hold such strong opinions is that I the actions of a few BASSA members have put the jobs of a lot of people at risk and now the dispute is over they are intimidating and bullying people who did not hold the same opinions that they did.
In my days in BA engineering after an industrial dispute all of the staff and the union officials had a deliberate policy of "kiss & make up", this is not the message that some in BASSA are sending out.
I can't go into the cases of bullying from BASSA that I know about as this might prejudice legal action that may come to pass but I would stress that these cases are orchestrated by only a few people.
This bullying simply would not happen in all the other airlines I have worked for and the attitude of these people must be a CRM issue if not one of flight safety................fortunately they are a minority and don't reflect too badly on the BA operation as a whole.