This is all getting very tiresome .....
I normally prefer to read rather than contribute.
These issues seem to be doing a pretty good job of dividing NATS staff into opposed camps. Not good new for starters.
We (NATS) are allegedly a "company". We all work for the same people. We all have colleagues who are ATSA, ATCO, ATCE plus all the other grades who hardly seem to get a mention.
I see far too many posts here that imply that there are only certain members of the "company" who deserve a pay rise of X. I guess I must be old fashioned. If a group of people have collectively done a bloody good job of handling more traffic against the odds then surely that group of people collectively deserve to be rewarded for it ???
I am neither ATCO, ATCE or ATSA (but I used to be one) I am merely classed in statistics as "other". I believe I work every bit as hard as my colleagues across NATS. I work long hours, sometimes I bring my work home .... and no my In Tray is never empty and always waiting for me on a Monday morning. Oh yes ... and half an hour for lunch !
I believe that we should all be rewarded for the hard work we are faced with. However we appear to be in danger of tearing ourselves apart from the inside with all this inter-unit bickering.
Lets all hope it is sorted out soon so we can get the money and get on with it