Genuine Enquiries
This is an open Forum Lads and there are people like D*C who are posting obtuse comments and should be treated with disdain and there are those like Bob who genuinely seem to need the facts and should be provided with the same professional service he would get on freq., remember we NEED to win the public over to our side.
Bob,
if you have read the whole thread you will know that this dispute is about our working conditions nothing more, nothing less.
We want our contractually agreed working hours nothing more, nothing less.
We want our contractually agreed fatigue breaks nothing more, nothing less.
We want our contractually agreed annual leave nothing more, nothing less.
We want our legal entitlements to parental leave nothing more,nothing less .
We want an organised scheme for overtime that firstly protects the health and wellbeing of the controller by setting acceptable maximum working hours and a period of advance notice of standby. This is also in the best interest of the travelling public.
These are fairly basic conditions that are taken for granted by every other employee in the country, should we settle for less?
The IAA have been warned for years that this crisis was looming and they chose to ignore that.
We have offered solutions for years and they have ignored them.
How the IAA achieves that is now up to them but we will not stand for any further erosion of our basic rights and if the IAA continue with the "ostrich" behaviour they are in for asummer of delays and discontent.