What Pay rise are you expecting over the next year

[heading 125]

Well the question has to be asked. Reading the aircrew sites - most are expecting RPI +0.5% = 4.8%
What do you think we should get - it must be RPI at least surely?

[throw a dyce]

Doubt it.I think it will be in the area of 2% which is Gov target,with so many strings attached you could make a fishing net.
Also the lower Nats Banded units could well be in for another drumming over,to keep the higher paid units quiet.
Oil at $150 a barrell and climbing,the airline industry is going to be in the S*T.

[Me Me Me Me]

From a NATS perspective, I can see a long, long, LONG and painful negotiation process for this one. The long term financial plans for CP2/CP3 will be well at odds with what RPI is currently sitting at.

I sincerely hope that, after Mr Barron rubishing any reference to NATS still supposed to be a 'not-for-profit' company (it was a condition of PPP) and insisting that we are a bone fide profit-making, private company, they are not now going to play the 'part government owned' card to insist the c. 2% public sector pay idea should apply to us.

We managed to pay off a huge chunk of debt and still make a multi-million pound profit... I'm not taking a pay cut in real terms. Simple as that.

What they will say is that any money to pay for the pay deal will have to be raised from improved effiiciency.

[northernmonkey1261]

You mean we won't be offered the Dubai style 40% pay rise to keep us all happy?
Paid for by culling half the office staff?
Too simple I guess.

[Standard Noise]

Culling half the office staff, mmm, now there's an idea.
Mind you, we could cull a whole site.

[stressed]

And that site would be ??????????????

[The Many Tentacles]

The fourth floor????

[Arkady]

I think Standard is alluding to a site a bit further down the road from Swanwick

[The Many Tentacles]

Oh, that one

I just thought I'd line up another target as well in case one ducks out of the way

[kinglouis]

if traffic is still going up, so 3.5% a year over the next 3 years will do.

[andrijander]

Don't know about NATS but at EC this last year we were in for a treat. A whole 1% increase for the revised period of 07-08 paid retroactively. Geez, thank you Boss!

I just wonder how much they may have made in interest on that by holding it a whole year. An how much did cost of living raise? Hum....

But they say I should be thankful....right.....

:/

[LapSap]

6.3% this year in the Fragrant Harbour.
That almost brings us back to where we were 10 years ago.

Standby for them to take it back with the other hand in 6 months though.