Alert 5.
As I understand it your BEC and members were naive enough to believe management when it said no more in the pot and voted to accept the deal.
The ATCOs voted against the deal and were prepared to take action if there wasn't more on the table. I suspect that most of the ATSAs would have continued to come to work even if the ATCOs were on strike?
The ATCOs then negotiate a SECTIONAL increase and all of a sudden the ATSAs/ATEs want a slice of the cake??
If I were NATS I'd tell you to s*d off and try again next year-in the hope that you will be naive again then.
I reckon you've shot your bolt for 2002/2003.