BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 15:10:00
And review what they were offering? i think that would be very dangerous for all parties to establish that sort of precedent. actually they had a pretty good handle about what inflation was going to be. i think the thing they might not have got right was what was going to happen to pay awards generally. but the 4.5%, 5% they awarded isn�*t that far away from the economy in general. so i think the issue they had to look at was was nurses a special case? and nurses got 3% of the year before when a lot of other people got zero. so it would have been hard work for the trade unions to argue that ...