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Speaker 1: I watched a woman from one of the unions explain

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Speaker 1: how much work had been done to settle their latest claim.

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Speaker 1: The Allied Health Workers have signed off their deal. It's

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Speaker 1: about twelve thousand of them, physio social workers, that sort

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Speaker 1: of thing. There was more work to be done, she said,

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Speaker 1: And I bet there is. Unions they're dreadful things, really,

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Speaker 1: if you think about it, they're full of people who

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Speaker 1: are full of hate and misery. Health work has got

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Speaker 1: two and a half percent this year, right, two and

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Speaker 1: a half percent this year, are a little bit over

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Speaker 1: too for next year now the Principles got something similar.

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Speaker 1: Secondary teachers, same thing. Primary teachers. There the holdouts at

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Speaker 1: the moment, but that's over the treaty. As we found

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Speaker 1: out last week on the program. Moneywise, they appear to

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Speaker 1: have been offered what everyone else has been offered. In

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Speaker 1: other words, all the angst, all the upset, the hot air,

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Speaker 1: the back and forth, the strike, the stop works, the

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Speaker 1: waving of the blackouds on picket lines has resulted in

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Speaker 1: pretty much the same thing for everything to something this

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Speaker 1: year a bit less next year. Months and months and

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Speaker 1: months worth of agro for the same result. What's the

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Speaker 1: point in that at all times the state had no money.

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Speaker 1: We're in debt. When you've got a collective that covers

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Speaker 1: thousands of people, the offer will always be affected by

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Speaker 1: the scale of the outcome. Sir Brian Roche would appear

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Speaker 1: to be the unsung hero in this, quietly and patiently

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Speaker 1: beavering away with a bunch of myopic idea logs who

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Speaker 1: believe that threats and withdrawls of labor is a good

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Speaker 1: way to do business. If one of them had got,

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Speaker 1: you know, like eight percent, if one of them had

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Speaker 1: been able to point to a material gained by their

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Speaker 1: seemingly never ending barrage of industrial action, they might have

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Speaker 1: had a point. But they can't. In a nutshell. They

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Speaker 1: got pretty much what they got offered in the first place.

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Speaker 1: The state, we're never looking to rip anyone off. Good

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Speaker 1: people and good order is a valuable asset in the

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Speaker 1: public service. But in a country with no money, you

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Speaker 1: can't magic up riches. So all that union apparatus for what,

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Speaker 1: all those fees for what, all those days off? For what?

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Speaker 1: Two percent this year? Two percent next year? For everyone?

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Speaker 1: How much time, energy, and noise could have been saved

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Speaker 1: if the approach was less adversarial and more adult. For

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