Unions shouldn’t look gift horse in the mouth

Whilst very many of us who reside in the volatile private sector are concerned, even angry, at the pay deal terms offered to the public sector, it is definitely not the time to be playing Russian Roulette with our future.

We can rant on about the difficulties that those in the private sector have to endure — the lack of job protection, the increasing use of unfair contracts compared to the myriad of benefits enjoyed by the public sector including pension arrangements that cannot and would not be sustainable for private sector employees.

The bottom line, trite and all as it might seem, is that we are where we are. There are no magic wands that are going to turn things around overnight. It’s a very simple fact, but the public sector needs the private sector and vice versa.