There may be a few veterans who remember when annual inflation at 20% was not unusual and pay demands reflected it.
In 1977, firefighters held their first strike after their call for a 30% rise was rejected by the then Labour Government, which two years later was defeated in a General Election after a winter of damaging public sector strikes, again over pay.
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