In more recent years SAF began to shed its corporatist ways and champion decentralised pay bargaining.
The imperatives of accommodation and compromise have been difficult to reconcile with Fianna Fail's corporatist can-do image and its back-room dealing. The reasons go to the heart of its identity.
And if they have to be discarded in favor of corporatist activity, what's in it for us?" Jobs, says UAW President Owen Bieber.