jujuman13

Every single GB Gov. has at some time used this ploy to explain the awarding of below inflation pay awards.
Should these some 20,000 Prison Officers withdraw their labor, the British Gov. would be in deep do do.
At that point they would grant them whatever they demanded.
Blackmail is indeed a dirty word, but when a Gov. causes (through it's inept handling of the Nations finances) interest rates to rise 5 times in a single year without giving some form of compensation to Gov. funded workers, what can they otherwise expect.
Having a NO-Strike deal with a union demands respect from both sides, it does not simply mean that the Gov. can walk over any essential body of workers.
And yet after all this Mr. Prudence Brown still has the gall to say that he has acted with prudence.
Might have been better had he had an affair with her instead, that way GB finances might be in a better state.