When you have the 'Arthur Scargills' of the world fighting for a cause you know there will never be an outcome. The word 'Negotiation' doesn't seem to be on the table so to speak.
BASSA were smashed and broken by Wee "Shoe me the effing money" Walsh. (Seriously, not making it up, google it!) Mixed Fleet were created over the cold dead corpse of the busted flush they became. And yet, shoot forward a short few years and young new cabin crew are already so demotivaated and hacked off they're on strike. Young middle class shiney faced well brought up middle class types on strike! This isn't the old dragons of the left brigade, this is what happens when the management at BA is so incredibly inept, they can't properly manage that once in a generation cost saving victory over a discredited union. How much of the money saved in smashing BASSA is now being "washed" away against a wall in paying Qatar Airways to fly BA's flight schedule because BA can't get their
junior staff into work.