'The government must show steel when it comes to pay rises'
Talks should not be about pay restoration, but about creating a better public service, writes Ian Kehoe
The talks about the talks have begun. The negotiations to agree a successor to the Lansdowne Road pay agreement will not begin for some time, but both sides have been quick to set down their respective parameters.
Impact, the country’s largest public service union, said on Tuesday that the priority for unions in the new talks was to secure a timetable for the elimination of pay cuts imposed, while quickly adding that it ...
