PC767: if wages are 99% of your dept's budget then if I was a BASSA rep I'd be asking them where on earth the hotel costs and everything else in IFCE fits in, that 99% doesn't make sense, does it? (I'm not saying he didn't say this BTW!)
On whose budget is everything else?!
BASSA should be delving deeply and coming up with ideas for savings which DON'T involve pay cuts, IMHO.