At Swanwick the pension situation has been top of the canteen talk agenda for some time and a couple of very pertinent points have been brought up. It has been suggested that the privatisation "trust of promise" only covers employees in post prior to 2001 and that any vote to change the pension arrangements would have to be agreed by the majority of employees of NATS.
I would like to suggest that if this is so then we "oldsters" are either in the minority already or will be very shortly if you include the many adminisrators and other non ATC staff in post at Swanwick and the CTC. This will be compounded by "oldsters" who the changes do not affect voting for the proposed changes to receive the inevitable "bung" which goes with these "improvements" to our pension fund.