Just to help clarify a couple of points.
Reference delegating traffic to the mil. In the 1977 strike BMI/BA and a few others sneaked up the North Sea working Eastern / Northern / Border. After a few days of this we were told not to work them. Something to do with insurance / licencing.
I am a support person. If traffic levels rise by 5% it does not affect me, engineering or management - it affects frontline ATC staff that are already naffed off. I have been there so I do understand.
I still think we should stick together, take this deal, allow the aviation world to recover then take them to the cleaners. Let them know that its coming too!
As far as splitting unions goes - a single union is the way forward - no "ATCO's branch" and "Engineering branch" or PC(bl00dy)S. Just one big powerful ATC union for everyone.
As we are we are devided as a workforce before we start.........
