This is all rather interesting stuff and I for one am happy that you can't yet take it private on the NATS forum <G>...
Over here if the employer would have written us or even talked to us about what was good for us during pay negotiations we would have filed charges against the employer since it is not allowed...
I wish all of you luck in your endevours... By the way, I am sitting here reading all of this while watching a group of our controllers in Washington DC for the week. We put on a gathering once a year where we get a LOT of controllers together who are legislative activists and we decend on Capitol Hill and talk with our legislators for the week about what WE want to see happen with avaiation... If I find the web site that you can see it on I'll post it in a thread. It's quite long and about two hours...
regards