UK - NATS Pay negotiations - latest rumours
Disappointed
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Scotland
Posts: 242
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
No point in having at go at we ATCOs. Ultimately, it's not our fault. Don't play in to the company's divide and rule tactics.
I'm saddened by my colleagues who voted yes but ultimately, would PCS/ATSS have recommended a no vote if the situation were reversed?
I believe the ATSAs are planning an overtime ban (which will cripple PC for one) and then a tactical withdrawal of labour, as a last resort.
I'm saddened by my colleagues who voted yes but ultimately, would PCS/ATSS have recommended a no vote if the situation were reversed?
I believe the ATSAs are planning an overtime ban (which will cripple PC for one) and then a tactical withdrawal of labour, as a last resort.
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Dodging Flybe at EHASC
Posts: 61
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Well, Comrade Bob Crow managed a 5.2% increase for those of us who signal trains. With RPI+0.5% as the 2nd year deal. Perhaps it is time to join the RMT?
Mind you, many of us are raking it whilst we can before we are all replaced by a large computer in Basingstoke...
Mind you, many of us are raking it whilst we can before we are all replaced by a large computer in Basingstoke...
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Cheshire, California, Geneva, and Paris
Age: 67
Posts: 867
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
If the ATSAs choose not to come to work on their days off duty and delays occur due to staff shortages then that is their right.
There is a Chinese curse which says "May you live in interesting times" and I think that might apply to many ATCOs and students. There will be massive pressure from the management on all atcos to work understaffed and threats applied to students and ATCOs to do ATSA tasks.
I would like to think that Prospect will brief its members on their rights and responsibilities given such a scenario.
There is a Chinese curse which says "May you live in interesting times" and I think that might apply to many ATCOs and students. There will be massive pressure from the management on all atcos to work understaffed and threats applied to students and ATCOs to do ATSA tasks.
I would like to think that Prospect will brief its members on their rights and responsibilities given such a scenario.
Last edited by DC10RealMan; 14th Jul 2011 at 11:01.
StandupfortheUlstermen
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Peoples' Democratic Republic of Wurzelsetshire
Age: 53
Posts: 1,182
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
the engineers will be looking at an overtime boycott and a work to rule.
There will be massive pressure from the management on all atcos to work understaffed and threats applied to students and ATCOs to do ATSA tasks.
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Somewhere nice
Posts: 28
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I was under the impression that holding trainee ATCO's at Swanwick already do ATSA tasks?
PPRuNe Bashaholic
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 1997
Location: The Peoples Alcoholic Republic of Jockistan
Posts: 1,442
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Also the case at Prestwick; TATCs are being trained to undertake ACPO and FSS tasks. PCS have been all too accommodating with local management and only seem interested in protecting the operational roles - which, lets face it, are the roles that are dead in the water!
Beady Eye
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: UK
Posts: 1,495
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
It's a short term solution for a short term problem.
BD
PPRuNe Bashaholic
Moderator
Join Date: Jun 1997
Location: The Peoples Alcoholic Republic of Jockistan
Posts: 1,442
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Next thing you know, you'll have non ATSA staff coming in from Projects and the like to do the ATSA job because management cocked up by letting ATSAs go before EFD was fully operational ....... maybe the canteen chef, the receptionists, and the cleaners, could get a quick ATSA 'validation' and help out too ?
A short term solution ?
A short term solution ?
Beady Eye
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: UK
Posts: 1,495
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
maybe the canteen chef, the receptionists, and the cleaners, could get a quick ATSA 'validation' and help out too ?
My earlier response to your post was my own humble opinion <shrugs>
BD
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Somewhere nice
Posts: 28
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
It's a short term solution for a short term problem.