SIPTU pay hike requests of 5% are reckless given our national debt

Set the price high and we can always come down, is an old way of haggling and it looks like it too forms Jack O’Connor of SIPTU’s industrial relations tactics.

It would be amusing, of course, were it not so serious. The good old days are truly back with a bang.

He is looking for a straight 5% pay rise for us all this year, plus a neat 33% hike in the national minimum wage. In the words of a song ... “wouldn’t it be lovely”, if we were living in a world of fantasy.