To announce on the day before

To announce on the day before a public service general strike that the wages of public service workers are  to be restricted to an increase of 1% a year for two further years when the current wage freeze ends and on top of the cut in take-home pay that increased pensions contributions represent, while prices are rising at 4-5% a year, the government must be either overconfident or stupid, if not provocative. To resist such cuts in living standards is what trade unions and strikes are for.Who said that there was no such thing as the class struggle.