Ron wrote: > one could postulate, that they "see" effectively 2 navigation > authorities (EA, BW) funded by one (DEFRA) - just ripe for one (say BW) to > take it all over, make quite a few redundant at the EA end, and NOT increase > the head count in the other one, just make them make do with the staff they > have got on the basis that the extra bits added are not that much compared > with what they control already...
So if EA and BW merge, what happens to all the other areas of responsibility that EA have? They are far from just being a navigation authority. I guess one option which might have a cost saving would be to move all the navigations to BW and the rest could stay with a reduced size EA. Conversely if you're going to merge the lot it might make sense to absorb BW into the EA rather than the other way around as the latter has experience of managing the whole range of assets. I would therefore expect he majority of redundancies to come from the BW pool. Steve NB Bream PS No surprise to see the old chestnut of Continuous Cruisers paying more starting to rear it's head again at the slightest opportunity :-(((
