Catherwood LibraryILR School

One month after members of Britain?s air traffic controllers union, Prospect, voted overwhelmingly to reject a two-year contract offer including a six-percent raise, the union has reached a tentative settlement with Britain?s National Air Traffic Services (NATS). The crux of the potential agreement lies in the union?s acceptance and encouragement of voluntary overtime by members in return for a ten-percent raise over the next two years. If members vote to accept the proposal in the coming month---as the union leadership is encouraging them to do---it will diffuse the growing potential for a strike and ease the major staffing problems NATS is currently experiencing.