Hi

Interesting thread !!

But IMHO the Unions are just rattling their cages to let the so-called Government know that they are around.

This is just a preliminary in what is going to be a long drawn out negotiation process to try to make the case that making cuts is not the way forward.

In the same way The Government is over talking what they actually are proposing to do. So that when they do make clear what they are going to do it doesn't seem quite so bad after all.

Industrial psychiatry really !!

It happens all the time in business. Ever negotiated for a pay rise...???

Same process.

cheers

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