"Today, the ATCO Pay Negotiators as part of the Joint NTUS Pay Team, met with NATS with regards to an offer on Core Pay. At this meeting, NATS made their ‘best and final’ offer which involved using a blended RPI based on a combined Aug 2008 and Aug 2009 RPI figure. This is a different way of doing a pay deal and takes account of the rapidly changing economic environment we have found ourselves in.
The offer on the table does not involve any changes to our current T’s & C’s and has been the culmination of months of difficult negotiations.
The next step is for the ATCO Pay Team to present the NATS offer to the ATCO Branch Executive, at which point the BEC will endorse or reject the offer. It is hoped to make this presentation to the BEC by 22nd April. After the offer has been presented to all constituents of the NTUS, full details will be communicated to all members along with the recommendation of the BEC. This will be followed by a ballot of the members as soon as practicable."
Forecast RPI for Aug 09 is about minus 0.7% 
This presumably would give us about 4% over 2 years
. The industry average for this year is 2.6%
NB. UK RPI for July 09 is forecast to fall to minus 1.2%
This is a different way of doing a pay deal and takes account of the rapidly changing economic environment we have found ourselves in
This sounds like management w*nk speak to me
and is loaded on managements side
. If it's so rapidly changing how can they possibly ensure we dont end up with next to SFA next year unless they have agreed to accept nothing less than 4 % over two years ?
