For years nurses had wanted special pay arrangements which recognized that they did not take industrial action in pursuit of their pay claims.
By tilting bargaining power towards labour, it encouraged big pay claims.
If it is true then you could consider an equal pay claim if there is a gender difference.
The tribunals systems is creaking under the weight of multiple equal pay claims.
With effectively no means of enforcing the pay policy, unions which had not yet put in pay claims began to increase their aim.
Mr Blair agrees, adding that no government could submit to a 40% pay claim.
Tribunal held that Ms Fletcher did have an equal pay claim.
Brazilian officers have defied civil authority to press pay claims.
As a result employers are scared to move to equal pay because of the cost of back pay claims.
The attempt to bolster the pay claim with the fear of closures failed.