Prospect takes action.
Another ‘draft report’ from Prospects communications department for Profile magazine perhaps??
Prospect ATCOs Branch have today taken the unprecedented step of escalating relations with NATS management in a bid to speed up the stalled pay talks.
Prospect have taken the unusual step of moving from ‘feeling exasperated’ to being ‘mightily peeved’.
The annual pay awards, which are traditionally due on the 1st Jan, have never been brought in on time, however even by usual standards the current situation is fast becoming a farce.
A Union spokesperson said today:
“We have tried working together with NATS Management but to no avail. We have been left with no option but to indicate that we are now officially, ‘mightily peeved’.
The reason we have taken this robust course of action is twofold. Firstly we want to send a clear, unambiguous message to Management and secondly we want our members to feel they are getting value for money.
We believe that this escalation will bring the NATS Board to the table to start discussing the pay award issue.
We have also indicated to Management that if they do not enter discussions with us soon, we will consider the unprecedented step of becoming 'extremely miffed'.
We are giving management a shot across the bows, and urge them to enter into talks to prevent us escalating things further. If there is no sign of movement from management by lets say November, we will officially become ‘extremely miffed’.”
This is the strongest action that Prospect have taken since the much maligned PPP. They have never, in their history been ‘extremely miffed’ with NATS Management.
The spokesperson went on to say
“We really do not wish to go down this route, especially as we have been so good with Management in ‘Working Together’. However we feel that we have no option as all other avenues have failed.
We believe that the use of the words 'mightily' and 'peeved', coupled with the possible future utterance of the words 'miffed' and 'extremely' will send shivers down Managements spines”
NATS Management have so far declined to comment on the Unions action.
the above is not real, before anyone gets all worked up
Last edited by anotherthing; 24th February 2009 at 16:12.