We should be striving for a stable and fairer sector that competes on quality as well as price.
Stephen Timms, the shadow employment minister, acknowledged that Labour was backing a fair public sector pay freeze.
There are some significant challenges our society faces that only a trusted, effective and fair banking sector can fix.
In science, in business and in the more reasonable sectors of government, numbers have won fair and square.
Earlier this year, Will Hutton, executive vice-chairman of the Work Foundation and an Observer columnist, was appointed by the government to head a review into creating fairer public sector pay – and to what extent a multiple between top and bottom public sector pay, say 20 to 1, could help shape norms of private sector pay.
But if they get a pay rise, it would only be fair for public sector workers to get one too.
If only there were some way to push corporations to start investing that money, in a way that was fair across a sector and didn't disadvantage any particular company too severely relative to competitors, and that also accomplished some public goal so clearly worthy that it could be justified on its own terms!
We have made a lot of progress but it is now up to the government whether they want to sign up to a negotiated way forward which, I think, will lead to the sort of reform that the government wants and be equally fair to public sector workers".
Assuming L-3 trades at a trailing P/E of 20, which seems fair given the sector average of 22, the shares could trade up to $94 over the next 12 months.
And why the focus on agricultural produce, when a booming fair-trade manufacturing sector potentially would help far more countries?
