Thankyou for unilaterally closing this post - very mature. This is a forum for discussion, not a place to sound off and then sulk.
Have you really got 20 yrs experience???
Anyway, it doesn't take the brains of an ATCO with 20 yrs exp to work out that paying someone for the job they do is hugely important. The college are considering going onto shift next year to increase the output as we will be incredibly short of ATCO's in the next 2-3 years. How can you dangle the recruitment carrot of:
"Yes that's right, you are now earning £3 per day more now you are validated than when you were at the college! AND you have responsibility and and people lives to deal with"
Bargain - that'll work!!!
Anyway, I am still hugely quizzical as to why YOU raise a topic that you say is not your opinion and don't neccesarily believe in!
Why do you keep harping on about the 'good old' days??? That was when you may have had a job for life, Old school ties and all that but look in the mirror - times are a changing.
Still....only 6 weeks before you become extinct!