WILL be changed, irrespective of what Management or union says.
Watch this space. Probably be an announcement within 12 months.
Most likely closing present scheme to new entrants, then giving current members the option to move from the less well supported scheme to the less good one.
Someone somewhere let something slip.
Spin, Spin, Spin. The baron really has got his teeth into this one hasn't he? Float lots of rumours about the "inevitability" of closing the scheme and do it often enough and people will begin to believe its true.
IT IS NOT
FACT: CAAPS is well run and meets all of its obligations
and is likely to in the future. There is
NO evidence to suggest anything else.
Just becasue other schemes aren't doing so well, this has no bearing on CAAPS.
FACT: The current NATS management teams main interest is increased PROFIT. Anything that MAY threaten the great god PROFIT has to be dealt with. Hence the cheap shot at CAAPS.
UK government continues to hold 49% of NATS. Despite assertions to the contrary, the UK government still has responsibily for SOME of NATS and CAAPS.
The baron and his henchmen will continue to float stories about CAAPS being doomed. When you hear these "fictional stories", just remember who is telling them and ask yourself what their true motivation is. Not staff welfare that is certain.
Should push come to shove, single shift strikes are easily do-able at each NATS unit without too much pain to each individual Union member (one shift). The effect on the airlines would be paralysing of course.
This is one that that some senior managers are becoming aware that they should back away from. They are being driven by the baron's lust for profit.
Rgds BEX