What would be a “slap in the face“?
a) A pay freeze for local authority workers
Unison say:

The decision to cut our members’ pay without negotiation is …

Even the Trade Unions can see where the political tide is going – towards the Conservatives – that is why they are discussing with their …

Certainly that will be the case if this happens:

Unions are to demand new rights to strike as the price for keeping the cash-strapped Labour Party …

The Labour Party, and thus the British government itself, is currently massively in debt to the trade unions. Not just purely financially either.
The unions, in …