THE ENEMY WITHIN...
DC10RM -
Totally in agreement with your original post. Despite all what the Management, Airline Group, "Barron's Court" or anybody else throws at us, the NATS staff themselves are, and always will be, our own worst enemy.
Viewed overall, we pose no collective threat or opposition to anything unsavoury emanating from Management Land - only the ATCOs have any real bargaining power, and they are completely intransigent to the dilemmas of the rest of the workforce. As long as they're OK, then everything's OK. Trouble is, they can't even agree things between themselves! (Band 5 rules! - and s*d the rest of you)
As long as this in-house apathetic state continues, then Mr Barron and his "no-hopers" can continue their good work unchallenged.
Didn't see 264's response - must have been "interesting"!!