Air men in strike vote.AIR traffic controllers threatened last night to go on strike if the Government refuses to re-consider plans to privatise Verb 1. privatise - change from governmental to private control or ownership; "The oil industry was privatized" privatize manufacture, industry - the organized action of making of goods and services for sale; "American industry is making increased use of the service. Delegates at a conference of the controllers' union, the Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists, said they will vote for industrial action if Ministers refused to consider other options. Iain Findlay, national officer for the IPMS IPMS Fraunhofer-Institut für Photonische Mikrosysteme IPMS Interpersonal Messaging System (ITU-T) IPMS Interpersonal Messaging System IPMS Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS International Plastic Modelers Society , said at the conference in Stockport, Greater Manchester Greater Manchester, former metropolitan county, 497 sq mi (1,288 sq km), W central England. It comprised ten administrative districts: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, and Wigan. , that the vote would be a protest against Government proposals to sell off 51 per cent of National Air Traffic Services NATS, (formerly "National Air Traffic Services Ltd."), is the United Kingdom's main air navigation service provider. A full member of the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation, NATS is also a shareholder in European Satellite Services Provider . |
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