As I wait for The Currency’s post-budget interview with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Jack Chambers in the lobby of his department, I pick up a leaflet from the trade union Fórsa lingering on a table. It is from August and encourages civil servants to vote for industrial action and increase the pressure for a new public sector pay deal. The motion has since gone through, and both sides are entrenched in their disagreement on the starting point for talks. Sporadic industrial action is under way ahead of nationwide strikes scheduled for the next two Wednesdays. Chambers has rejected…

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