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Fighting when fighting is needed but, as BASSA have proven, fighting when negotiation is required is suicide.
Sadly that has been whittled away in the UK reducing the power of the Unions.
AFAIK the merger will take place but the BACC Chairman has already made public that BALPA are tired of giving and are concilliatoried out"
Unfortunately the myths that BA's pilots still use to justify them serving drinks, is deliberately misinterpreted as the real reason for the cabin crew dispute. Imposition and union busting were the incendiary items as recognised by over 100 academics and Professor Keith Ewing. In any forthcoming dispute between BA pilots and Walsh, I can assure you there will not be the same intellectual condemnation or support.
As Wirblsturm and others are recently discovering, the cabin crew dispute was a shop window for what Walsh would dish out to employee groups who are not 'conciliatory'.
Wirdble kids himself that the pilots could ever organise themselves for any sort of industrial action. He quite rightly illustrates how the law in the UK is used against employees by management via the Establishment, in what is now coined as "British Airways tactics". BA pilots are no longer on a pedestal, but just another cost that requires a haircut.
Studi is right. A Yes vote is just feeding the crocodile, it is not even buying time. Whatever agreements BALPA asserts it has with Walsh regarding the placement of new aircraft, will simply be brushed aside and BA will fight it out in the Courts months or years down the line.