I think people would be more understanding of the delay if we had progressed to this point last year instead of listening to TFN and his negotiating team spin every story that they could about how none of the problems are their fault. Now we finally get them to a point where they are being a bit more sensible but we all get a "be quiet because we don't want to upset anything" order. Where was TFN's order to shut his mouth last year? Just goes to show, once again, who the real professionals are.
I think what has been clear through this whole process is that the problems in ASA are not industrial ones; they are management ones. The sooner we get this CA out of the way the sooner the axe can fall of the pack of incompetent, manipulative and misguided managers that we have been lumped with. Unless of course they all get rewarded for achieving a result under "extremely difficult circumstances".