The current CPI figures are what...4.7%?
The CPI does not include housing, food or transport...its a Govt con job.
Real inflation probably hovers around double the CPI.
For decades management and Govt have done an impressive job at restraining wage increases (for everyone else, not themselves) to figures that are less than CPI and WAY less than real inflation.
You guys have been negotiating for 18 months now?
So, if you get this 5%, you're probably 2% behind where you were 18 mths ago just on the CPI and probably 5% worse off than you were 18 mths ago in reality.
And this has been ongoing for decades.
You guys are not fighting for a wage rise you're fighting to minimise the pay cut.
Ignore morons like PAF.
Good luck
