Mr Jones wrote:
By saying their position is non negotiable they are setting themselves on a collision course with one of the most strategically powerful group of workers in the country.
I am not entirely sure that "their" position relating to pay/current pension scheme members is non-negotiable. Below is what the NTUS statement says:
However, management have now set out a fundamental principle which they describe as “non negotiable”. Any pension arrangements for new entrants must be free of risk from their perspective.
Now that can be read in several ways - I
think it says that the non-negotiable stance is that
pension arrangements for new entrants must be free of risk or in other words apart from that, everything is still negotiable but am open to correction on that.
DD