Yes... let's negotiate seperate deals for each employee with consideration to their skills, experience, location, difficulty to replace, sickness record, hair colour, cup size and/or inside leg measurement....
I'm sure management would love to have all ATCOs on individual contracts - so they can shaft you all one by one. And if you are selfish and blinkered enough to believe all this elitist nonsense, then you deserve what you get.
We all need each other and we all should stick together.
In my opinion the extra offer to ATCOs looks like an entirely deliberate attempt to split the unions and the workforce. If they had thrown money at the ATCOs in any way other than on basic pay then the rest who voted for the original deal could have no complaint. Argument over. They knew that. They chose to give some of their staff extra and to hell with the rest... knowing exactly what response that would get.
I believe that NATS are in negotiations at the moment which could see a compromise deal in which everyone ends up with more than the original offer.
Don't take the bait... Stick together.
After all... 10% to an ATCO on £50k is still more money than 10% to an ATSA or MSG on £25k... so you can still feel superior if it excites you that much...
