Juan, are you another pilot suffering from selective memory loss? This is a worrying trend. The reason for the strike was that BA imposed change.
Yep, BA imposed change. After three, or was it four, deadlines for negotiated change had passed and the cabin crew unions were the
only unions in BA that hadn't reached an agreement! Did BASSA and CC89 really believe that if they dragged things out for long enough they'd keep dodging the bullet? Talk about burying one's head in the sand!
In the end a negotiated and honourable settlement was made that protected Legacy contracts. Better than any deal offered by Walsh - take it or leave it style.
It's virtually the same deal Walsh offered three times! It just got progressively worse as the cost of the industrial action was added to BASSAs savings target. The face at the top changed but the puppet master didn't. You can fool yourself that you got something different, but everyone who didn't drink the BASSA Kool-Aid can see you tweaked the lions tail and got your heads bitten off.
The only problem was that to get to a negotiated settlement, it cost BA a minimum of £200m plus.
£125M projected crew savings with Mixed Fleet over the next five years alone. Most people in BA would say that was more than worth it.