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  My point Sid is that others are facing a far worse situation.
  
  People who cannot even consider strike action because they work for small employers who will just go bust. These are often 'pitching in' to help their employer's businesses survive. They cannot afford the negative 'them and us' attitudes of many who work for big employers.
  
  Then there are the small business employers themselves who are carrying a big burden and are mostly working for longer hours than anyone they employ, risking their very homes to keep their businesses afloat or to meet their creditors. They also sometimes take a lower wage than even their most junior employees.
  
  These very employees and employers are also contributing, through their taxes, to high feather bedded pensions for employees of the Government and local authorities, than they are themselves able to afford for their own pensions. These are quite similar to the final salary pensions that DHB employees enjoy.
  
  So please do not expect me, or anyone else in the private small business sector, to shed crocodile tears for those who are enjoying conditions better than they have and are now expected to join the real world that the majority of the population live in.

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