FBW, from your link:
A quarter of major private sector firms expect to close their final salary pension schemes to existing members in the next few years, a survey suggests.
Which means 3/4 are not closing - we shouldn't let NATS management select the juicy bits of news, good or bad, to drive their own agendas to the detriment of staff.
A lot of folk are in a panic about this "credit crunch" but a lot a of firms are using this as a on-size-fits-all excuse to slash pay and conditions - certainly NATS has and much of the crap we're in is, whilst precipitated by the ecomic slump, is a direct result os poor, short-sighted management by NATS.