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I know of one PCG at Swanwick who has gone with immediate effect - but he is being replaced... in fact, already has been.
Another one has moved sideways within the company, although the e-mail inferred he was leaving NATS. Again once he has moved sideways, someone else is taking up his old post.
I have also heard on good authority that we are keeping all 5 OM's.
So as far as I can see, we have not made any savings as yet on management positions.
I do have it on good authority that one ATCO who has been unable to validate and has been hiding in an office on top of the scale pay will be going though... not before time, but not a huge saving.
We seem to be getting rid of a load of ATSAs - not sure if letters have gone out yet - it was supposed to be yesterday but it did not happen. I think they are to be gone by the end of the month.
So when the summer schedules kick in (and I am sure people will actually be surprised at the traffic levels - they won't be as low as some may think), we are going to be woefully short of ATSAs, especially in TC - any balancing between the two Ops rooms will require retraining, but there will be nobody to do it!
I can see overtime happening in the TC Ops room for ATSAs within the next 2 months.
Once again, a case of management looking after themselves and not doing what is best for NATS, or dare I say it,the provision of a safe service.