Thank you
Roffa and
anotherthing for clearing up the TC lack of reward. As I say, our union reps have some paperwork regarding various other NERL moves, OCT, etc, and I expect that will be the basis of any local claim. No one is asking for anything over what other people in the past have got, just some parity, whatever that may be prove to be.
1. The kit isn't 'like for like' - in fact we still have lots of issues with the VCCS more than a yeardown the line, we had training on days off for the new kit before we moved. Unpaid, covered by clawback.
So did you move in to a centre using the kit you had at the old one and had been trained for, or was the new VCCS not introduced in to service at West Drayton ?? You also had no need to train on the NODE system. Scottish controllers are going in to a Centre where
every piece of equipment is new to them, including a retrograde step to a radar system which seems to have been designed with making everything as difficult and as cumbersome as it could be possible to do, with an unclear picture and some possible safety issues, at least when compared to our current 1970's style one touch equipment.
Unpaid, covered by clawback.
It's a different kettle of fish then. You obviously owed the comapny time and they took it back. No one here could complain about that either. Our difference is that the clawback days will have already been used for other training which is day to day stuff not connected with Prestwick Centre going operational. So, they will need us to come in for around 5 days of our own time if they want us trained up to move 100 yards across the car park.
I am not giving up 5 days of my time for TOIL which I can't burn off anyway and especially not when I would like to. It's given ad hoc and dependent on staffing, which is probably only possible in the winter months, not the summer or autumn months when they want us to attend. And they have to somehow find that amount of time off for 130 + other colleagues as well in the same time period. No thanks, keeping my days off as per the roster suits me better !!
I am also not willing to forfeit 5 days off for a non op AAVA payment. It certainly isn't voluntary as far as I'm concerned and they have a cheek if they expect me to attend in my own time for a paltry £300 per day before tax (a pay rate which was set years ago and is worth a hell of a lot less in real terms now than when it was agreed). The emphasis is on voluntary. I'm not volunteering for pennies.
I work a 6 day on, 4 day off cycle. Fitting my training in to that is what I would like to do if they are only going to give me a ridiculous and derisory offer to do it in my own time. And I'm not alone in thinking like that.
It's totally incorrect 'statements' like yours that divide the company and cause ill feeling between units, when there is in actual fact, no basis for it.
OK, let's put TC to one side (I'll vote for you to get Band 6 BTW), what did AC and Heathrow get then ??