Your 10% doesn't seem to equate to what we are seeing on a daily basis with ATCO's testing each other on their breaks on the NAVCANADA assessment papers, it is now more widely read on the unit than our own MATS, believe it...people are now planning the move and have been for a while, families are organised, assessments are taking place constantly for MACC guys. The genuine feeling here for NATS is that most ATCO's have given up on it and our move is inevitable so we will go where we want to be. Most guys now agree in open that they are going, most agree that their families are going to be very dissapointed if they don't go. DISSAPOINTED.
We believe we will be getting an influx of new trainees over the next few years. Whose going to train them? Not us, those left intend to hand back their OJTI licence. Proof of our point, it's not and never has been about the money. We don't feel as if we're on the poverty line. It's the regrading. the way we've been handled (or rather have'nt), the tearing apart of a VIABLE unit. The ignorance of our managers. The hammering our morale has taken. It is a disgrace that at a unit with 95 ATCO's (that are valued higher overseas than they are here) who will be moving en-masse as a unit to a different country with all the complexity that entails with regard to family, partners, travel, homefinding, etc that we don't even have one HR body based here permanently to answer our questions or help with worries some guys may have. We should have had liaison visits, info on rental accomodation, maps of the area, info on house buying, general help with concerns. We thought that was THEIR job. They have this info.
We are dissapointed and are voting with our feet. BELIEVE IT.
And bear in mind. whatever is left of manchester is heading your way. We have just had our traffic levels anticipated for this summer and we don't know how our overloaded ( filed) sectors will cope. This is heading your way without (we believe) enough people to do it. It WILL in time affect ScOACC/NPC. We will watch the 10% that are left try to manage it. Even if it's only from afar.
And still they're closing us down.
