WHY isn't it a ballot box in work areas..who decides on it being a postal vote????
If it were a ballot box in the work area you'd have a number of problems to address. First how to ensure that every union member entitled to vote got a ballot form and anybody not entitled to vote didn't (remember the union may not have a complete list of where in NATS you work). Second what to do about the sizeable number of people in NATS with no fixed workplace. Third how to ensure that there was no intimidation in the area of the ballot box. Fourth how to make sure the ballot box was secure for a prolonged period, shift patterns may mean it's some time before everybody attends their place of work. Finally deciding who should count them and how to get them from the place of work to where they are counted.
Of course it would be better if we went back to the traditional method of mass show of hands or better still standing on a box one at a time and declaring our vote, that would obviously result in a much fairer vote
