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The union committee also offered to sacrifice a wage increase of 2.79 percent that had already been agreed on with the company and was due to be paid from 2006 . The only negative aspect , for Ian , was the commuting : between 40 and 90 minutes in each direction . After a few minutes we predicted that boredom would soon set in , but instead we were mesmerized and stayed for over two hours - - the only non-Indians in the audience .