SIR — In her long and rambling letter in last week's Free Press, UNISON rep Linda Sully claimed that strikers' intention was not to inconvenience people.

Who is she trying to kid?

Closing schools and nurseries, preventing the sick from getting to hospital and crippling public transport is aimed specifically at the most vulnerable members of society and is much, much more serious than mere inconvenience - it's potentially life-threatening.

Luckily, the whole thing was a bit of a damp squib.

Before acting as an apologist for the likes of her boss Dave Prentice (annual salary package a whopping £126,000), Linda might acknowledge that almost two thirds of union members were so satisfied with the offer on the table that they didn't bother to vote.

So her 76 per cent "Yes" is more like 30 per cent "Yes" or, put another way, 70 per cent "No"!

So, even when 70 per cent of her own members didn't want the strike, it still went ahead. Didn't want to inconvenience us? The small minority were willing to cripple all of us at any cost!

Carl Saunders-Singer,

Ballfield Road,