I am a little confused not to mention worried to some extent with regards to this. So the government wants to sell the shares that it holds within NATS (either all or part of them).
It seems like if it does happen, there will be a lot of changes to everything from Ts and Cs to pension and eventually to service provision i think. Lets just hypothetically say that "a company" comes in and the first thing they do is change the Ts and Cs to go in line with all the employees and they then start with the pensions too and then eventually move on to service provision and possibly safety.....etc. i think there will be a lot of staff looking to become controllers elsewhere. it could leave NATS embarrassingly with no staff at all.
privatisation hasn't helped with projects around NATS struggling to get them complete in both ops rooms and all this as traffic is slowly getting busier and the olympics looming over the horizon. What will the new buyer do when it finds out how much money has been spent on these projects that are yet to see the light of day in the ops room?
If the pension is altered again or our Ts and Cs are changed......i think i will be looking at other ANSPs i think.