Union activists are a bit stunned.
Petition is circulated and hundreds sign within two days.
Some of us meet Councillor Heaster. Smarmily he tells us that he wants to reach agreement and that some staff would welcome the proposals. A colleague tells me, shaking with emotion, that he has hardly had any days off sick for 20 years until this year when he had an operation. Yet now councillors insult him. Wandsworth Council has the lowest sickness level of any London borough.