How both sides can say they won

How both sides can say they won: Let’s take Lazarus at face value and accept that the average BU salary in 2025= is $98,000

Average weekly salary of $98,000/52=$1,884.62 per week.

3600 BU staff x $1884.62 = $6,784,632 per week

$6,784,632 x 7 weeks unpaid =$47,492,424

So Jeff has an extra 47.5 million in his pants. Enough to cover 4% a year for 3 years.

We get a decent, respectable increase that falls in line with the current settlements going on in the labour market, and Jeff can tell Dougie and his buddies that we paid for the increase by ourselves.