ATCO Branch to withdraw from Working Together Agreement
Due to ongoing issues with both NERL and NSL Management’s disregard for the principles which have underpinned industrial relations within NATS, the ATCO Branch, following debate at the recent Branch Executive meeting (BEC), have been left with no choice but to withdraw from the Working Together Agreement. To this end, a letter has been sent (download HERE) to Philip James, Director HR, giving the required 3 months notice and setting out a number of the issues of concern, which, if not adequately addressed, will result in our withdrawal from the agreement.
Paul Winstanley
ATCO Branch Chair
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Sir,
With regard to our possible withdrawal of the ‘working together’ agreement, it would appear, following decades of ATCO (mis)representation that the union is, somewhat belatedly, showing signs of possessing a number of vertebrae in it’s dealings with management. The grudging concern over the plight of NSL makes a pleasant change to the ’sacrificial lamb’ stance normally adopted by Prospect. If we, as a membership, had shown signs of fortitude at any stage in the last few years, we would not now be part-privatised and not now be under continued and serious threat from low-brow ‘Del-boy’ individuals masquerading as our managers. I have been in the civil aviation business, now, for approaching 40 years and I, like many of my collegues, have perceptibly greater concerns for the future of NATS than do the ubiquitous ’straw-managers’ this business has suffered since privatisation. It is absolutely imperative that the fly-by-night, junketers are sent a serious message of intent.