You're probably right, saintex. A fair bit of unity is called for.
On that blog, the author writes about training up a large pool of ATCO's. As with any specialist vocation, such training, if done properly, takes a large investment of money and time.
The obvious answer, which is written about in another CANSO blog, is to not do it properly. De-skill the profession. It's already happening. More automation and procedures-based standard operating practices, less skills-based practices.
Is anyone else seeing this? Is anyone else seeing that the airlines - who probably don't know any better - seem OK with this?
To be fair, they probably are ignorant of the true story.