[Osem]

Having listened to yet another radio debate on this issue this morning and heard a number of RM staff state their various views, I don't really think my opinion has changed one iota. I have sympathy for anyone whose job and/or terms/conditions are changed for the worse (or even lost) but in the real world that sort of thing happens all the time and especially so in the middle of a recession. I really don't see RM staff as a special case - they'll just have to accept to the sort of commerical reality most of us have had to live with for years. The choice we have is to shape up or ship out and find something else if we don't like the job we're in.

Whatever the outcome of this battle, the union will not win the war and IMO their ill-considered action will serve simply to antagonise their customers and hasten the demise of RM as we currently know it.