Vortex,
To pick up on one of your themes,airport staff doing overtime.That has never been a compulsory part of your working conditions,and in fact one of the reasons that LATCC as it was got a whack for doing O/T for the NERC trainiing,was that staff there folded their arms and said that they would not attend for the 'normal' rates.The more you do O/T the more management will use it as a tool to cover up 'real' staff shortages.It really is a bit rich to have a dig at area ,whilst claiming that airfields are worse off and then add in that O/T is a norm at some of these very units.
Is it only now when enhanced rates have been negotiated we all hear of how badly done by you are,and where does it state that airfields will not be entitled to them?there is a crisis off staffing at LACC,and I suspect the price for solving it has higher to go.
Your views on alleged practices at area units are out of date.