"....Peter Skyte, Unite union's national officer for IT, said: "There is limited overlap or duplication of roles in the UK...." Hmmmm, let's see now - two companies, two IT departmnents, two HR departments, two legal departments, etc, etc. I've yet to work for any company where the union actually did something useful and talked sense rather than skimmed a free living off its members whilst talking drivel to the press.

Trying not to be too depressive, I wonder if the hp figures for staff reductions were precognitive enough to take the downturn into account, otherwise these cuts will just be the start and rolling redundencies will probably be the norm for the next few years. The annoying bit is the waste-of-space union officers have safe jobs as they never get included in redundacy lists. Maybe we should start outsourcing our uninons.