I am puzzled.
NATS management must know how dearly we hold our pension and how weak their argument is after all the years of their underpayment.
By saying their position is non negotiable they are setting themselves on a collision course with one of the most strategically powerful group of workers in the country.
The tanker drivers got a 14% pay rise after a couple of days strike action.
NATS management must know that after a couple of days of strikes, their owners – the airlines – will be screaming out for a solution to be found and found fast.
So NATS management must either be banking on us not having the balls to strike over our pensions or they must perversely want to find other employment.
Or, they must know something we don’t. Like CTC is so stuffed with Here Today Gone Tomorrow staff who will vote 'Yes Please' for any £1,000 that we are already doomed to lose any ballot.