I don't hear loads of people disappointed with the "Swanwick experience"-in fact far from it. There was a realisation that all would not be well in the first few months but things are slowly coming together.
Traffic is rising and overloads are not significantly if any higher. People are more confident with the system which has allowed a gradual increase in TSFs. The 40% increase will happen but you'd be the first to complain if all the TSFs were raised by that level so soon. However the role of the LAS needs to be clarified and a few more of them need to take more interest on what is happening on their sectors, but the re-structure could well take care of this one!!
The canteen leaves alot to be desired but that should be a relatively easy one to fix. The building is 20x better than the one we left but so it should be. The local management "appear" to be a different proposition to the one we had last year and again for the better although i suspect their honeymoon period is drawing to a close. 70% of staff voted for the present WP despite a few niggles and 0630 starts for the core morning.
As for the ORO: rostering is getting better BUT ONLY now that the watches are more involved. We are years away from a significant increase in staff but then we always were!
So overall things are better but obviously not for everyone and the union can only TRY to represent everyone and don't forget they are working ATCOs as well. How do you all spend your days off-not in front of Gwynneth I'll bet??
If you think things are bad now try to get an update on the pension meeting which took place earlier this week. Start to exercise minds on how to proceed over the next few weeks and the relatively minor moans we may have now will be put on the back burner. The reps can only be as good as the strength of the membership so if you are unhappy let them know otherwise they can't even try to fix it.
And for the record you are WELL OUT OF ORDER mentioning names on an anonymous forum.