The last contribution?

SIPTU leader Jack O’Connor posed a pertinent question just a couple of hours before the framework for Croke Park II became public.

“Is the proposal [from the Labour Relations Commission] better than what would happen in a government-legislated pay adjustment and is it as good as or better than we could reasonably expect to achieve through a protracted industrial battle?”

The unions who remained in the talks process to the bitter end had the opportunity to shape a document which, if their memberships vote to accept it, will determine the extra financial and workplace burdens which will be placed on public servants for the next three years.