Dear Editor: Government spinning Anansi stories to suppress workers’ wages
“[…] Minister Imbert has […] set the stage for entrenching the austerity programme the IMF has long been advising: privatisation, deregulation, the reduction of the public sector, wage suppression.
“This austerity, of course, involves the weakening of the trade unions through the hiving off of the health sector, a de facto wage freeze at 2013 rates, the wholesale introduction of fixed-term contracts over recent decades and the seduction of trade union leaders by the conglomerates and the political parties …”
The following Letter to the Editor was submitted to Wired868 by Gerry Kangalee, education and research officer at the National Workers’ Union:
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