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Why should debt be responsibility of the workers?

I WOULD expect nothing less than an even-handed analysis of the importance of the role of negotiation in the Grangemouth refinery dispute from Peter Curran (April 29), an acknowledged expert in the practice and teaching of that art. But sometimes the presentation of an apparently reasonable and ostensibly objective approach can obscure issues of justice that may lie beneath the apparent mutual positions of protagonists in disputes, not least of which - as in the case of most of the struggles of working people - is the disparity of power between them and their employers.

I WOULD expect nothing less than an even-handed analysis of the importance of the role of negotiation in the Grangemouth refinery dispute from Peter Curran (April 29), an acknowledged expert in the practice and teaching of that art.