Precisely. You (the union) are not linking any Pay deal with any new/re-instated AAVA agreement, the union should simply say that they will resolve the pay deal first and then resolve the AAVA agreement second.
The sooner the pay deal gets sorted, the sooner an AAVA agreement can be done.
No industial action. No linking, simply a sequence of events.
And as far as I can see, it is not the union that apear to want to link a pay deal and an AAVA agreement, it is management that appear to be insisting on the two being linked (along with MET provisions).
Management insist any deal must deliver items including an open ended AAVA agreement and MET provision. Our views as to the value of these items differ significantly