trafficnotsighted.
As an outsider can i assume you know nothing if not very little of our current pension changes of recent?
We have just bailed out NATS to a princely some of tens of millions a year when certain high end figures still receieve a 13% pay rise.
We have always, on insistence of the company taken the previous years RPI as the base of the following years pay deal. Historically that has not been high, now it is and the company doesnt like it.... they cant have it both ways!!!
We fully expect the pay deal in a years time to be bugger all as it will be based on this Augusts RPI.
We do not live in a cocoon, but we all worked our nuts off last summer and this pay deal should reflect that.
Then take into account the recent pension changes, the sectors that us area ATCO's do that is above MUR... to you that means that we do extra work for FREE and above what our contract states (if we were to give these up, which we are perfectly entitled to do NATS would be screwed) and, the fact that NATS continues to post record profits on its intranet for all us to read then you may be able to see why we will fight for a respectable pay rise.
NATS love to use scaremonger tactics. It worked during the pension deal and they are simply trying it all over again.
If the profits are so bloody great, how about rewarding your workforce?