It is here that U.S.Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen, U.S.and NATO Commander General Stanley McChrystal and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai strolled through the rows earlier this month.

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But Unite's joint general secretary Derek Simpson said he was "not at all optimistic".

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But Tony Woodley, joint general secretary of the biggest union, Unite, is bullish.

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Derek Simpson, joint general secretary of Unite, told BBC Breakfast that besides this dispute there was a "wider problem" to address.

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