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I SEE David Begg of the ICTU and Jack O’Connor of SIPTU were complaining recently about the wage increases ministers received.

Standing idly by

Fri, 23 Nov, 2007 - 00:00

Question: what are unions going to do about it?

Answer: nothing

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