outside nats companies are starting to pay more as they dont have a workforce of thousands draining the profit by sitting at desks, emailing eachother, designing new and utter rubbish procedures when they know jack all about ATC, claiming everything on expenses and spending literally thousands on meetings at hotels when they could use barrons personal chocolate factory that is ctc..... maybe we should start recruiting oompa loompas?
i do not believe we are the one and only when it comes to the company, but they... and some office types seem to have forgotten that if we dont work, or work as well as we do with 'goodwill' extra validations etc means we dont get paid by airlines and no one gets paid full stop. the respect from within the company for atco's at all units seems to bee diminishing each year, current negotiations seem to be reflecting this.
i know of plenty of people at my unit looking further afield now to dubai etc if the next pay and pensions negotiations go south... but not before they will make the company suffer by giving back valiadations and refusing to train etc..... sorry if you dont like it, but this is what is happening on the front line.