Prison officers, police and teachers are among the public-sector workers alleged to have carried out surreptitious industrial action this year.The clandestine walkouts, which only came to light as ministers were sorting through old bills to see what to put in the manila bin for recycling tomorrow, are believed to have occurred over the course of several months, and to have cost the British economy an undisclosed amount.
According to some pundits, the true losses may be incalculable.
Prime Minister David Brown called the covert stoppages “unacceptable” and “unacceptably mysterious,” insisting that settlements could have been reached “if only we’d known.”
Leader of the Opposition, the Shadow Figure, Gordon Campbell spoke of pupils’ distress on discovering that they may have learnt nothing at all last term, and the anger of thieves and innocent foreigners at the revelation that, for a whole season, they’d effectively been disciplining themselves.
But unions were adamant that employers had left them with no choice.
“Besides,” said an anonymous note, “with current labour laws, and the media as it is, we daren’t make too much of a fuss.”
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