At Swanwick AC morale has been slowly ebbing away, particularly over the last few months, fell a bit on 19th Dec, wonder why? Not quite hit rock bottom yet, but I'm sure a poor result on the 2009 pay deal will make it very close to rock bottom. A proper pay rise of 4.8% (August 2008 RPI) would go down well and may even boost morale, but I'm sure Barron won't let anything happen to improve morale under his reign.
After the pension result Barron has got us where he wants us and things are only going to get worse. My fear is that when Barron moves on his successor will know that we won't stand up for ourselves and we have opened the door for reducing our terms and conditions forever, regardless of who's in charge, I'm not happy about that.
