Decentralisation - Pay talks must not be clouded

WITH the planned resumption of the national pay talks on Sunday, the objective has to be to secure a deal equitable to all parties relating to the direct issues affecting all of the partners and who they represent.

The question of decentralisation is not a direct issue, and by no stretch of the imagination impinges on anything but a fraction — 10,000 — of the country’s trade-union members.

It is an extraneous matter, undoubtedly a vexatious and very contentious one, and the approach adopted by delegates at the biennial conference of IMPACT is sensible.