Monday, 09 July 2018 10:07

Labour pains

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Your old mate can’t help but bask in an extreme case of schadenfreude (look it up) over the number of government workers lining up to go on strike unless they get big wage increases.

Labour and its coalition clingons went into the last election making big promises to their union mates; so you can’t blame their erstwhile comrades for now expecting a big pay-off – and corresponding pay rises – now they are in government. Your canine crusader reckons you can expect public servants of every hue to follow nurses in demanding similar hefty salary increases and threatening strike action if they do not get them. Meanwhile, the Hound reckons if IRD workers do go out on strike – as they are currently threatening to do – he is happy to join them on the picket line, as this old mutt reckons the longer IRD is on strike the happier he and other hard-pressed taxpayers will be.

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