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The island’s nurses are insisting that they will be pressing for a 100 percent salaryincrease for the 2008/2010 period.
Their insistence comes a day after the finance minister Audley Shaw told Parliament that nurses would be a getting 15 percent salary increase for last year like other public sector workers.
The president of the Nurses Association of Jamaica
(NAJ), Edith Allwood Anderson, said Mr Shaw’s comments were premature and misguided.
She says the nurses are yet to negotiate an increase for last year and she’s reiterating that the NAJ did not sign on to the public sector MOU.
Mrs Allwood-Anderson says after the reclassification issue is completed, the nurses will seek to secure a wage increase.
She says they are going for the 100 per cent hike promised by Audley Shaw when he was in opposition.
The Finance Minister has scheduled a meeting with nurses for today.
The meeting was confirmed yesterday when nurses protested outside Gordon House demanding the implementation of their reclassification.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=8369
Their insistence comes a day after the finance minister Audley Shaw told Parliament that nurses would be a getting 15 percent salary increase for last year like other public sector workers.
The president of the Nurses Association of Jamaica
(NAJ), Edith Allwood Anderson, said Mr Shaw’s comments were premature and misguided.
She says the nurses are yet to negotiate an increase for last year and she’s reiterating that the NAJ did not sign on to the public sector MOU.
Mrs Allwood-Anderson says after the reclassification issue is completed, the nurses will seek to secure a wage increase.
She says they are going for the 100 per cent hike promised by Audley Shaw when he was in opposition.
The Finance Minister has scheduled a meeting with nurses for today.
The meeting was confirmed yesterday when nurses protested outside Gordon House demanding the implementation of their reclassification.
http://go-jamaica.com/news/read_article.php?id=8369