People on here saying they will stop doing AAVAs, give up the 3rd sector etc etc, will not make a blind bit of difference to the grand scheme of things. It must be a very small percentage of ATCOs who use these forums, as according to PPRUNES unofficial ballot, the pension was a definate NO vote. Ones person refusing to do an AAVA is an extra AAVA for someone else. One person giving up a 3rd sector, is another person not getting an EG. Refusing to train a TATC, well have they not been screwed enough over the years by ATCOs.
Bottom line is, we are like every other work force in the UK . Management are the enemy. We can moan all we like and threaten to do this and that. All this and that will achieve though is we will end up shooting ourselves in the foot (early gos ETC). We probably had our chance on the pensions and we blew it big time. I believe we had management rattled for a while, CEO special visits, extra pension briefs,CEO responding on the intra net. We wont get that chance again.