........ and in the UK the Prospect National Secretary (not an ATCO) makes another mess of things by agreeing with his NATS counterpart that any such action in the Uk would be industrial action
God's teeth. What a pathetic excuse; you could surely just have done it anyway.
I can only presume that the union covers more than NATS and also. judging by other threads, that you are not entirely satisfied with your reps performance, and also that reps are elected.
Instead of just complaining about your conditions, why not take steps to organise your own union, with your own elected reps.
Or is it still that Napoleon's "Nation of shopkeepers", still has de Maistre's, "...government it deserves"?