the entire workforce should be offered the same as has already been mentioned
Considering the offers, why do you feel as an ATSA that you should be given the same rise as everyone else?
Like it or not, the Union (all 3 sections) has allowed terms and conditions to be included as part of the pay deal. These terms and conditions are worth different amounts.
That you should receive at least an RPI raise is one argument and is fair enough and one that can't be argued with, however once you (or your union) start negotiating Ts&Cs as part of what should be a core pay deal, then the ability to call for equal terms becomes moot.
We have differing contracts because of slightly different Ts&Cs... when you start changing them, then there will always be a disparity.
Moving away from making this a core pay deal (something that started a while ago) muddies the water. For example, if the ATSA community were offerd 4% with no strings and the ATCOs were offered 5% but had to take on extra duties for this, would you still be saying that you should be getting the same rise?
Anyways, why blame Prospect? I've heard it said that PCS was the first to actually talk about individual deals. Now that may be a scurrilous rumour, but it's no more pie in the sky than some of the other rubbish written on here.
Only those on the negotiating teams know the whole story regarding the offers over the past 11 months etc. We, the great unwashed, will never get to know all these details, therefore everything else is speculation.
The cold facts of the matter are the 3 pay offers. They have to be looked at individually. The best way to do that is against RPI (after all, this is the figure management always use). Then look at the other things you are compromising on... the 3 sections have different compromises to agree. Then you have to vote the way you feel you should according to the offer has been made for your section.
Any chance of an equal pay offer across the board was blown out of the water when this went from a core pay deal to a pay deal with a trade off in Ts&Cs... It's very easy (and lazy) to blame Prospect or Band 5 ATCOs... in the absence of cold hard facts, instead of the usual rhetoric maybe you should look more closely at your negotiating team first...