aewaite17, Yes i would include validating and college students in this aswell as families with a newborn.
If you are in the union, they negotiate on your behalf. if the union ballots its members and it comes back as a yes to industrial action then this is what should occur.
college students wouldnt (or shouldn't) have any instructors on site to teach them anything as they should be at the gate.
same goes for validating students, their instructors should be at the gate.
There will be people it would hit more, newborn families, big mortgage families etc but it is not going to be a massive hit. As i have said before, i dont think think that we would be on strike for such a significant length of time as to really make a difference to a pay packet?
three 24 hour strikes over a period of 4-6 weeks similar to recent strikes by tube staff etc would cause a lot of disruption to airlines, aircraft and crews in wrong positions, delays, cancellations, angry customers in terminals both here and abroad ( see zoom x 100)
I would guess that a full 24 hour day of action would disrupt the aviation world in this country for at least 3 or 4 days??
surely our customers, the airlines, would put pressure on nats to sit down and negotiate a resolution very speedily.
I don't like the idea of strike action, it is messy and can impact directly on many peoples lives causing stress, worry and frustration. But this is the biggest issue to affect me in my 16.5 years since leaving the college. It is a must that we at least negotiate very hard with management and make it clear that our pension is here to stay. at NO RISK to us.