Beyond that, the public sector workforce is invisible to most of the population and there would be no support for strikes or other disruption.

About 2.3pc of the current public sector workforce is made up of accountants and finance staff.

As you know better than I, just 15 per cent of the private sector workforce are members of trade unions.

Why do women make up 65 per cent of the public sector workforce?

Another key area the research highlighted was the need for government agencies to take more responsibility for the migration of the public sector workforce.

In 2011, the agricultural sector workforce in the subcontinent was 75% women.

The same applies to managing the public sector workforce.

He will remind them that just 15% of the private sector workforce are members of trade unions.

These benefits greatly exceed those that are normally provided to the private sector workforce.

Hence there will be many votes across the political spectrum in the public and private sector workforce.