Mr777, I think you have read it wrong.
We get 2% this year, backdated to Jan 09. Come August when the RPI is announced, we may get up to an extra 1% backdated to Jan 09, if the RPI is -1.8% or better. That pay rise is to see us through to the end of Dec 2010.
No rise in Jan 2010.
I've just just a quick read through so far but it seems to me as if it is a one year pay deal, but applicable for two years i.e. from Jan 2009 to end 2010.
in otherwords, we will get a payrise backdated to Jan 2009 (as we should), and that will be enhanced if Aug 09 RPI is greater than -2.8%.
No pay rise in Jan 2010.
How the hell can we negotiate not to even think about a pay rise in Jan 2010 based on figures we don't even know yet?
Not good enough for that one reason above all others.
in a nutshell from the ATCOS.co.uk website
A consolidated and pensionable increase to pay and pay related allowances for all negotiated grades of 2% backdated to 1 January 2009 for a period to the end of 2010.
If August RPI in 2009 is less negative than –2.8% staff will receive a backdated increase for every 0.1% by which RPI is more favourable up to a maximum of an additional 1%.
In effect this makes it possible for a maximum pay increase at 1 January 2009 of 3%.
It is a condition of the deal that should RPI prove to be as or more negative than -3.5% in August 2009 that NATS and the NTUS will enter into early discussions to seek to address this issue.
Whilst the trade unions had submitted a pay claim in September of last year based on the notion of a one year pay deal it became apparent during negotiations that management would only table a consolidated and pensionable pay increase which might be seen as acceptable by us on the basis that it was a two year pay deal taking us through to the end of 2010.
Well, the union got have got that haven't they - a one year deal stretched over 24 months
Against that backdrop NATS management have raised their severe concerns as to the impact that this will have on prices and income. They have described to the trade unions what they see as a double whammy with the impact of reduced flight volumes and at the same time a reduction in the costs that they are able to charge customers
So concerned they gave away millions in dividends to the very customers they are claiming they are concerned they cannot levy full charges on...
Whilst the trade unions have been robust in our response...
Robust, miffed or slightly peeved?
On top of that, we won't even see it until August... that's the Jan 09 payrise we are talking about, 7 months late. A record even for our union and management.
Go on, vote yes - really prove to our management and our unions that we will accept a shafting over everything and that the recent motions agreed in the SDC are not worth the paper they are written on.