NATS is not going to go bust. NATS is a healthy profitable company. NATS is just trying it on with the workforce to increase profits the easy way by cutting staff costs.
If you're daft enough to give up your terms & conditions just to fatten the shareholders' bank accounts then that's up to you I guess, but don't expect me to.
I'm not saying we are any more special than any other group of professionals, but in a time of worldwide shortage of ATCO's why give away terms and conditions so easily? Supply and demand is currently in our favour. Do you think management would not be using it to their advantage if it was the other way round?
I don't think I'm being greedy in just expecting to maintain my present terms and conditions in a company which is posting healthy profits. I'm not asking for anything that is not an already agreed part of my contract. It is up to us as a workforce to make it clear to the company and to the government that we will not be subsidising their messed up part privatisation out of our retirement income. If NATS (NERL) is unable to meet its reasonable staff costs (which I believe they are) under the pricing regime imposed by the CAA, then it is that which must change, not my pension.
Appeasement with an aggressor never works in the long run. History proves this time and time again. Greed is never satisfied. Time to stand firm.