In time we'll learn to thank union bosses for making a balls of the talks [Independent.ie]
- Published: 13 December 2009
While public sector union bosses seemed like broken men and women for a day or two there, they got back into action as the week went on. Their super rich -- by their own definition -- salaries won't justify themselves now will they?
The first job at hand was to rewrite history. Having made such a balls, on behalf of their members, of the pay negotiations, before they could start putting their shattered careers and reputations back together, the first thing the union bosses needed to establish was that what happened didn't happen. So the line now is that the Government walked away from a perfectly reasonable deal, that the Government never wanted to do a deal in the first place, that political expedience caused them to abandon the unions amidst "hysteria".
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