Defend Our Pay & Pensions
The most important thing here is that the different types of employee stick together. ATCO, Engineer, Scientist, ATSA should be united. NATS senior management will try to divide and rule. We want no separate pay deals, no separate pension deals!. My faith in the union leadership to defend our iinterests is at an all time low. We should demand the company increases its contribution to the pension fund to take it FURTHER into surplus. Also we should go back to single year pay deals and settle for nothing less than RPI + 1. It is clear the company wants to weaken the Pension in order to close the scheme and split up NATS. NSL would almost certainly be sold first. The answer is simple...defend the Pension Scheme and get a decent pay rise for all and the company is less attractive for a potential buyer...which is what we want. Secure your pension, more pay and one whole NATS sounds simple to me. We just need some sort of gutsy leadership from TUs. Failing that the Union risks wildcat action by disgruntled ATCOs & other staff.