Apr 29, 2021
Joint Unions Plot Way Forward After Senate Passes Budget
The Joint Unions Negotiating Team met this afternoon in an extended virtual session, following the passage of the 2021 Budget in the upper house on Wednesday. The way forward for the Belize National Teachers Union, the Association of Public Service Senior Managers and the Public Service Union is uncertain. Wednesday’s vote in the Senate has all but sealed the deal on the ten percent wage cut and increment freeze that teachers and public officers will receive for the next three years. The unions are fighting tooth and nail to prevent the implementation of the salary adjustment and have proceeded with industrial action against the Government of Belize. The effort, nonetheless, has been met with mixed reaction from the public, as the issue remains divisive topic amid the ongoing economic hardship the country is faced with. News Five attempted on several occasions this evening to get a word from
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Apr 7, 2021
PSU Holds Emergency Meetings to Finalize Position on GOB’s Wage Cuts
The Public Service Union held a series of emergency meetings today to discuss with its membership the position they will take regarding a proposed salary cut and increment freeze. Permission was granted by the Ministry of Public Service earlier today for government employees, those who belong to the labor organization, to get time-off to attend the meeting. News Five understands that an initial meeting was held via Zoom at midday during which a vote was taken on whether the union should serve notice to government of an existing trade dispute. Of the one hundred and two members in attendance, seventy-one voted in favor of serving notice on GOB, one member voted against the suggested course of action and another thirty abstained from the exercise. Another virtual meeting was held at three o’clock this afternoon which will be followed by a final meeting at seven p.m. The PSU is gal
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Mar 16, 2021
Elena Smith
B.N.T.U. National President, Senator Elena Smith says that in other districts, members of the Public Service Union and the Association of Public Service Senior Managers joined in the motorcades. Senator Smith says there is collaboration between the unions in the dialogue with G.O.B. since the salary cut and increment freeze is across the board for all public officers, including police officers.
Senator Elena Smith, National President, B.N.T.U.
“That is the reason why we are moving forward as joint unions to put forward proposals and then to engage in all the other activities. So tomorrow’s press conference will see the other two unions being a part of that. And we should have seen a few of the public officers engaged in some of the districts because time was short with their notifications. So we do expect that as we move along and we progress with our activities that we will have their involvement in those activities.”