I am afraid I am with Anotherthing on this one. The threat of one days selective strike action (LHR on day, Swanwick another day, ScATCC etc, etc) would be enough. The management would cave in as it would be seen as not cost-effective to pursue it with the effect it would have on our "customers". This is provided that the unions carried through the threat that they have been mandated to do and did not come up with this "working together" nonsense. I consider public "sympathy" and their holidays a complete irrelevance when it comes to my future. To quote an American General (Patton or McArthur, I think) who said "You find the word sympathy in the dictionary between **** and syphilis.