Wage freeze

[Gamma]

a pure espadrilles yuh a wear?

[MdmeX]

[Karl]

Can we all just agree that this is the right and necessary TOKEN action to take to signal intent, but that in and of itself it is insufficient to solve the crisis?

Sigh, what all the fuss about?

Token act is for the mindless! The politicians always think the voters are mindless.

[Peter R]

The report makes Portia sound schizophrenic... first she "dismisses" the move, then "welcomes" it... it would be better if she has "welcomed" it first and then go on to make her suggestions of how the move could be improved... maybe that's how it was done? and the reporter printed what he thought would be the "news"? ...giving her the benefit.

[Willi]

You fail to see the value of positive signals?

Illogical criticism is an act of the mindless.

It should be acknowledged and then an ecouraging request made for more substantive action. If/when that does not come, then the right to attack is earned and justified.

[Willi]

Yeah,

I tend to blame the reporter here.

[Assasin]

good gesture and coupled with the fact that he refused a new car goes to show Jamaicans that everything is not all about money and not every primister want the wine and roses, instead live on what we can and serve our nation.

[Lazie]

good gesture and coupled with the fact that he refused a new car goes to show Jamaicans that everything is not all about money and not every primister want the wine and roses, instead live on what we can and serve our nation.

The PM will be modelling in a 08 benz. Clive Mullings is no longer a minister, suh the PM can take the benz that was assigned to him.

[Mosiah]

She is too combative. Her response, the tone and all that, was not necessary. Why does she feel everything must be a fight?

Geez!

[Mosiah]

And they should also remember to take retrieve their diplomatic passports!

[Assasin]

true, true

[Lazie]

JCTU shocked at wage freeze announcement
Published: Tuesday | April 7, 2009

The Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) has reacted with surprise at news that the Government has frozen public-sector salaries for this fiscal year.

"The JCTU has not signed off with the Government on any wage freeze for public-sector workers. In fact, we are in the middle of discussions with the Ministry of Finance and are awaiting information based on certain matters raised by us at the last meeting," Danny Roberts, vice-president of the JCTU, said yesterday.

Roberts was responding to an announcement on Sunday from Prime Minister Bruce Golding that public-sector workers would not receive the scheduled seven per cent wage increase this month.

"We have, therefore, had to freeze wages at the levels which obtained on March 31 and we have had to ask public-sector workers to forego the increases due this year. The other option would be to lay off thousands of workers at a time when alternative employment is hard to find.

"There are some categories of workers, such as nurses, that did not benefit from the increases granted last year and we will have to find some accommodation for them, but the rest of us will have to hold strain," Golding said in an address to the nation.

But Roberts said a wage freeze was just one of the measures being considered by the unions and the finance ministry in the discussions which started weeks ago.

"A suspension of the second-year wage increase rather than a total freeze on wages is one of the considerations," Roberts said.

[Gamma]

willi, the people in shady pines not necessarily there because they are mindFUL!