Quick final point.
Yes we could strike re the new joiners pay. The problem is, we don't have an industrial lever with that so we really, truly can't win that fight. Willy will do what he did with our cabin crew.
1) Let us strike until we can't afford to be out on strike anymore
2) Set up new BA from the bones of BMI
3) Go ahead with his new joiner contract in the new BA
4) We don't have any new joiners in old BA so we've no-one to strike for and we can't go on strike for another OpCo.
Or he might not even bother with step 1 so we've no legal basis for a strike at all.
I think you think we have more weight to throw around here than we do. Pretty much all the cards are in IAGs hands. Not ours.