Mr. Shay Cody:

I am merely making the point that management would usually sit down and conduct an exercise like this in private. When that initial discussion is concluded, it would then table something for the trade unions to engage with. This initiative was somewhat unusual in the sense that it was publicly announced at the concept stage before there was any engagement with us. However, even if management had invited us to participate in the initial discussion, what were we to have done? It took the guts of a year for management to come to any conclusion. It is only at this stage that our job becomes relevant in terms of, as we have described, either engaging at a sectoral level or, if need be, going to third-party negotiations in order to advance whatever arguments we require to be advanced.