Despite his Barstools and round robin trips around the units, what The Baron & Co, fail to appreciate is is that we are not a company producing gas turbines, where jobs can be outsourced to China or India, nor can we produce more widgets by working day and night!
We are a company of very smart individuals who work bloody hard and have a lot of pride in the safety critical tasks that we all (ATSA, ATCE, ATCO Office Bods, etc) discharge. Our "product" is the outcome of our minds and not quantifiable. By demotivating the staff, there has to be a knock on effect on our "output", whether we do it deliberately or not.
Some, myself included, will give up jobs that we choose to do out of goodwill such as supervising (no extra spine point if also an OJTI), safety cases, HAZOPs etc. as wel us giving up paid jobs such as OJTI, LCE and even AAVAs.
e.g we often bandbox GMC at LHR when it's quiet, which helps staffing, breaks etc. yet if we kept GMC split three ways even if we're twidling our thumbs....
In every industry, even during this credit crunch, the best people are still being rewarded with the big bucks. There is a global shortage of ATC staff, we really shouldn't have to take this crap.
And let's not forget the multitude layers management suckling at the corporate teat of NATS doing what the heck they do.
We have a business support manager at LHR - what the heck is his job that the GM or manager ATC cannot do? and community affairs director? Let's stick to the knitting.
We don't need to diversify, we dont need to take on contracts which make a loss (price our services realistically - if they don't take, they don't take), we just need to do ATC!
If this whole pension thing is already a given, we should
ALL VOTE NO as a protest, just to let management know that we aren't going to bend over and take it up the ar$£ as they do as they please. And let them feel the consequences of their bullish behaviour, let NATS pay the fines.
LET THEM REAP WHAT THEY SOW!!!!!!!! 