I am a little confused not to mention worried to some extent with regards to this. So the government wants to sell the shares that it holds within NATS (either all or part of them).

It seems like if it does happen, there will be a lot of changes to everything from Ts and Cs to pension and eventually to service provision i think. Lets just hypothetically say that "a company" comes in and the first thing they do is change the Ts and Cs to go in line with all the employees and they then start with the pensions too and then eventually move on to service provision and possibly safety.....etc. i think there will be a lot of staff looking to become controllers elsewhere. it could leave NATS embarrassingly with no staff at all.

privatisation hasn't helped with projects around NATS struggling to get them complete in both ops rooms and all this as traffic is slowly getting busier and the olympics looming over the horizon. What will the new buyer do when it finds out how much money has been spent on these projects that are yet to see the light of day in the ops room?

If the pension is altered again or our Ts and Cs are changed......i think i will be looking at other ANSPs i think.

Not quite true, Section A3 3.1 (xii) of the Branch handbook stated that "The BEC shall ballot members for industrial action should the Government announce that it is to sell off its remaining stake in NATS".

However, Motion 5 at Conference 2009 "Conference instructs the BEC to lobby Department of Treansport and Industry to allocate a portion of any future sale of shares by H M Govt for the exclusive purchase by NATS staff.", was passed and the procedural attached to this motion was the deletion of A3 3.1 (xii).

So it appears there is no such manadate.

There's always the option of a special delegates conference to determine policy on this issue should enough of the membership feel it appropriate and call for one

Hopefully that would be shares with full voting rights??? Otherwise it's just a bribe!