Public sector unions victims of double-dealing

SO the unions were led up the garden path by promises of an agreement with the Government and then ditched when they called off the pre-budget day of action.

Fianna Fáil TDs call this “firm leadership”. I call it low-down double-dealing. Of course there was a cynical calculation here that if the unions could be bamboozled to call off the day of action, then it would demoralise public sector workers and they would be slow to take action again.

This is a well tried tactic that illustrates the kind of slimy mindset that has characterised certain parts of the political and big business spectrum in the past 20 years or so.