Acting PM Hyde also engaged on a number of important topics, including the recent revelation that Ministry CEOs were spared of the 10% pay cut implemented earlier this year. Hyde was the most senior Minister on the Government s negotiating team that was conducting those extended consultations with the Joint Unions, to get them to accept the 10% pay cut. The negotiating team assured the leadership of the joint unions that the financial pain brought on by the reduction of the wage bill would be shared equally among those who are paid from the public purse. In today s issue of the Guardian Newspaper, the Opposition s Party