Expeditedescent
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 ?
and later...
The link between traffic levels and pay is your spin.
Our WORKLOAD has risen by around 8% year on year, and that obviously relates to increasing traffic.
WORKLOAD, how hard one is working do you get the idea yet???
No, I don't get it. How can you say that your workload is related to traffic levels, and then say that it isn't? How do you quantify it as 8%?
This is a side issue anyway. I am not saying that the settlement reflects the workload of ANY of us.
fatcontroller
1/ That's why I turned down the chance of promotion several years ago. A move down south is a step backwards in my standard of living. Everyone you work with - admin, engineers, etc suffers from this.
2/ I don't doubt it for a moment.
3/ Problem is others here want to use stats to prove that they deserve more...
4/ As we all seem to agree, there were major problems before Sept 11th
5/ I leave that to the union - that's what I pay my subs for.
6/ I'd like to hear some examples of a job like that with comparable pay.
7/ Wages are paid from earnings not loans from the government. The money NATS has got from them isn't connected to the pay deal, but does show how badly the future had been planned for.
8/ Pricing policy may not be our concern but when the major shareholders are also the major customers you can be d@mn sure you know where their priorities lie.
9/ As I said in my original post, if ATCOs wouldn't take industrial action to stop PPP I don't believe they will do so for a few extra percent of a pay rise.
NATS_Not_Funny
In short, this is the worst time in many years to try to take the management on in a battle for more cash. Arguments about who should be paid what are meaningless. EVERYONE's future is at stake.
It's the wrong fight at the wrong time with the wrong people.
I have always said that the important issue is not what we settle for in this years pay round, it's what will happen to ALL of us over the next few years as the TAG management turns the financial screws.
I am not anti ATCO, I am not pro management. I am simply an ATCE with lots of concerns about the future, for me and for ALL my colleagues.