A Different Class of Worker

Negotiations in which the UK Government was not involved, and which one side coincidentally described as "cordial and constructive," have resulted in non-inflationary above-inflation pay awards for workers at a car factory and drivers for an oil company. The blatant lack of regard for the perils of overpaid plebs can doubtless be blamed on the fact that the oil company is based in the USA and the factory belongs to the German manufacturer Rolls-Royce. Despite this abuse of the magic money tree, given the relative value of luxury automobiles and fossil fuels as compared with nurses, rail workers, postal workers, civil servants etc., no immediate moral indignation is expected from the UK Government.