If the union push for a headline 5% this will not happen the company to save face will give 3% plus bonus on the side hopefully extra points ect.
so if pride does not come in to it we can comprise but if we seek to pressure the company into 5% they will try to f@@@ us hard as an example, also the labor goverment is trying to prevent an inflation outbreak the last thing they want is a union campaine to drive up wages.
we are pis@@ off over the way management has run engineering however if we show senior management that we care about the company more than these bad managers they might replace them with better ones, because in the heat of battle lets rember where our paycheck comes from.