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Speaker 1: Honestly, the Primary Teachers Union, they're doing my head on

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Speaker 1: at the moment. So what this country needs a fewer

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Speaker 1: people like them and more people, you know, wanting to

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Speaker 1: get on with it. Get ahead, dream big, bee bold,

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Speaker 1: work harder, generally look at life in a more positive,

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Speaker 1: upbeat way. Latest problem for the union is they want

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Speaker 1: facilitated bargaining. I bet they do. Unlike just about everyone

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Speaker 1: else union based who signed a deal. The Primary Teachers

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Speaker 1: lot think that they are so special and so different.

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Speaker 1: The fact they can't reach a deal like everyone else

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Speaker 1: must be someone else's fault. My line, it always has been,

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Speaker 1: is hab a structure, a couple of cracks. Bitter back

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Speaker 1: and forward are best and final. If you can't agree

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Speaker 1: compulsory arbitration, it is not facilitated compulsory. You argue your case,

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Speaker 1: the decision is made. That's the end of that. These

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Speaker 1: cases we've seen of late, as I mentioned the other day,

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Speaker 1: all go on for literally months, and they all end

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Speaker 1: up literally the same. In the recent cases. Everyone's got

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Speaker 1: about two percent this year, two percent next. That's not

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Speaker 1: a result that required the amount of angst and anger

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Speaker 1: and walk outs and placards and TV news stories with

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Speaker 1: moaning union as to aking about unfairness and shortages. What

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Speaker 1: the unions have never quite gripped is social license. The

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Speaker 1: broad idea of unions representing the most vulnerable of workers

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Speaker 1: is not a bad one, but like so many of

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Speaker 1: these things, it's turned into an industry where hundreds of

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Speaker 1: people on large salaries rely on division and upset to

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Speaker 1: have a job. Happy workers do not make happy Unionists

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Speaker 1: and teachers especially are not vulnerable. Cleaners are vulnerable. Teachers

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Speaker 1: are largely on six figure salaries on a bang for

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Speaker 1: buck basis. Unions don't pull their weight, They're not worth it.

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Speaker 1: Stalling is not a productive tactic. Placcards the last centuries

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Speaker 1: technique compulsory arbitration. I dare them to give it a go.

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Speaker 1: It's short, it's sharp, at tixa box. We can all

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Speaker 1: move on. But why would you want to solve an

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Speaker 1: issue quickly when your very existence relies on the opposite.

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