The government has to be quite careful and not use the civil servants for any type of political service, |
The issue is being seen as a testing case for the government's ability ... That is the way the government sees this and the bill needs to be passed by whatever means. |
The surface of the dispute is about pay reduction, but I think that beneath this issue there is more deep-seated distrust of the government because the unions are saying that if the government can legislate on a pay cut, the government can legislate on anything, |