An opportunity to sit down and discuss pay for today But if staff- side organisations can't agree, what hope of a national deal?

The government has done well so far not to become ensnared in the trap over health service pay that engulfed the last Labour government in 1974. Back then, with NHS staff pay falling badly behind and public service workers' expectations of a new Labour government running high, ministers swiftly acceded ...

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