I dont lean far enough to consider myself a socialist leftist, but.....GO FOR IT BOYS & GIRLS.
As ATC's we basically earn a reasonable but simply not big enough sallary, we generally pay the highest possible tax rates for our given country, we generally have huge mortgages, we generally contribute far more to our respective countries social services structure etc etc and No we dont have the company car (except for the sallary package office boys), we generally have remarkably crappy breakroom facilities, we generally work with equipment / procedures designed to induce error,we generally get treated pretty poorly!
If being a permanent government employee means a greater sense of security is possible versus the privatised world and/or contract world, if working for the government means you can tell the boss to "fix this peice of garbage now or were out", if working for the government means an equitable workplace where reprisals for your diligent application to task within the rules are not possible, then good on the froggies.
We've all heard the stories about the Canucks, Kiwis, Aussies & these pages are chockas with teabag tales of woe. If a good old fashioned "stick it up your jumper" strike is going to get the results we all dreamed of, then who can I send my 10 euros to for the strike fund.