Meeting 1 - 12 May 2008

Today marked the centre bounce, the first whistle of the contest that is the Certified Agreement.

White line fever was apparent.

Both parties stood arm in arm, geeing each other up, confirming the game plan,  before taking to the field of battle.

One side with the unabridged support of the workforce the other the with the support and ideology of the previous governments managers still active and in control of the corporation.

On side asking for something fair and reasonable given the history, events, and profits achieved by the recent past.  The other denying the legitimacy of the request based on the global downturn, price of oil, future forecast, pricing agreements and government intentions about subduing wages growth to fight the genie that is out of the bottle.

So what actually happened?  If you know please feel free to post a comment.