The most important problem in the present relationship between the public servants and the government is not whether the former should be paid a 5%, 10% or 100% increase; it is about the government following established collective bargaining procedures; meeting the union at the negotiation table and if that fails proceeding to binding arbitration. In the medium and long run, this is the only way that public servants can be assured that their interests will be reasonably protected.
Since the 1950s, our history has been brutally propagandised, and today it has become a heavy burden upon which all manner of dubious and costly policies are based. This is nowhere more true than in the account of the relationship between the public service and the PPP. We need now to attempt to clarify this,
