Oh dear Notfunny,
You completely miss the point...........
I was not saying we should get pay related to amount of aircraft worked, but the fact is:
Traffic levels (and hence workload) have risen far ahead of reward (pay).
Why should that be acceptable, I mean if your workload had risen by around 8% a year and your pay had not......would you be happy ?
Name me any other sector of industry where the workforce would accept a year on year increase in workload of 8% with a pay rise of 3%?
Looking back at your first post in this thread, I am wondering what your motives were for posting........I mean tell the whole World you voted yes.........who cares, you won't be the only one.
Why did you feel the need to have a pop at ATCOs though?
In all threads here you will see how supportive and appreciative ATCOs are of the engineers, it is just a shame that people like you choose to pick on division rather than unity.
You obviously do not understand the arguments ATCOs have, so I'm not sure why you feel qualified to stick you oar in. You are not an ATCO, you do not have to handle the reality of operational traffic, so who on Earth do you think we are to tell us what we should settle for in the pay claim?
Have you seen ATCOs telling the engineers how to vote?
You made your choice, you capitulated.......thats up to you, but leave others alone who have higher aspirations than you do.
Oh and undercover, everyone is entitled to their opinion, however how many ATCOs have started threads here saying I am voting no, and then having a pop at the engineers?
All systems go, I agree unity is a far better option than division, however that has been taken out of our hands by the fact that the engineers branch and pcs have supported acceptance......
1261........There is no way management could afford to hold out over an ATCO strike. If fincances are as strained as management would have us believe, a one day strike would be almost enough to obliterate the company......if we went out for a sustained period it would blow the company and a fair few UK airlines out of business.........a situation that will never be allowed to happen.........when push comes to shove management will find the extra money.
A no vote is a vote to send a message to management that they cannot continue to treat us like s**t and are going to have to realise that ATCO pay must rise ahead of what it has been in the past.