Stripping away all the point scoring fundamental questions :

should folk get 11% ??

what happens when inflation falls to 2% do we apply wage cuts ??

can UK afford it ??

should public sector get better rises than private ?

if private sector did get the same as public would business cost rise resulting in redundancies ?

should public sector pensions be eased for the taxpayer to fund wage increases , as this is a benefit the private sector doesn't get and not factored in very often ..

if something like 11% is issued guess costs to consumer go up , business go the wall and services become cut ??

will more jobs go off shore especially those call centres type roles that can be done anywhere .?

will pay rises bring about less full time workers

I'm sure I've got it wrong but it all sniffs of opportunity country is coming out of Covid struggling to recover best to kick it now whilst its down rather than allow any sort of recovery classic union tactics ...

The part I struggle with is kids need to be in school after two years of pain and absence , hospital staff need to get into work on transport to save lives and get the lengthy waiting lists down rather than wait and see folk die ??

We could have a much worse unemployment situation due to Covid thankfully we don't due to the excellent billions of pounds of Furlough / business support measures .

Sadly a lot of folk had to take a 20% cut in wages to survive in work , whilst the public sector had 100% payments and in some case not working , or working in a restricted manner , got a feeling RMT workers maybe have been on full pay ,no mention of that benefit though ??