ZH 875,
20 years ago I would have agreed with you. But certainly not in the last 10 years.
Back in the mid to late 80's lots of fairies were “booted out or left ” and promotion was crap. 10 years later the “hand was on the other foot” (joke) and it was the Sooties/ Riggers with no promotion. You only have to look at the numbers/trades that have recently left under the latest Tranche 1,2,3 redundancy. In fact I believe that no fairies were offered tranche 3.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not slagging off fairies or admin or PTIs. Good luck to all those promoted.
I just think it is really sad that our planners have got it so badly wrong.