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we're singing from the same hymn book. What I meant by you maybe getting some flak for what you had written, (I agree with every word), is that some non-ops people might take what you had written as a personal attack, when in fact you were saying that it is your belief that there was room to trim some excess fat and not that you were saying all; of CTC was a waste of space!!
If you look at all my previous posts on this, I again agree with you... why should the workers (or so it seems) have to make al the sacrifices to fix the pension fund, when there seems to be other cost cutting solutions out there.
If that means some poeple lose their jobs then I'm afraid that's ho a business should be run. As long as those who do lose their jobs are definitely not making a real contribution to the company. It's a dog eat dog world out there, no company should be employng people who don't really fill a role/provide productivity. As far as NATS is concerned that goes from Senior management, down through the extra layers of management we keep picking up, continuing down to ATCOs/ATSAs/ATCEs/office workers etc.
NATS should cut the dross as you rightly state - just make sure it really is non productive people. Then management should come back with real costings etc to make an informed decision about how to save the pension!!
Cutting the dross should be a continual process though - not just something we think we should do now because of the pension issue.