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Wed 03 Mar 2010Public service reform needed now as we've paid for it
The nonsense of turning up for work, taking the wages but punishing innocent third parties is not a strike – it’s a State-sponsored sulk, writes SARAH CAREY
WHAT DO the Greens and the trade union leaders have in common? They’re both willing to endure any humiliation so they can cling on to power. That’s the only conclusion I can draw from this supposedly “revolutionary” deal. The pay cuts will not be reversed. The workers will deliver the reforms offered last December in an effort to avoid those cuts. When these reforms are independently verified, the Government won’t make further cuts and maybe in a few years, if there’s any money, they’ll consider some reversals for the lower paid.
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