I am told that our airline customers, by that I mean airline execs that will also get a fat payrise and a fatter bonus for shedding staff, think it "INSANE" to award NATS staff a payrise! We are awarding the execs a payrise by giving them a huge dividend!
The unions have lost the plot completely and are being comprehensively outmanaged. Maybe it's time for a joint ATC union of ATCO's, ATSA's, engineers and ATC specialists.