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Government's treatment of public sector workers atrocious says PNP
JamaicaObserver.com
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
THE Opposition People's National Party has lashed the government's handling of public sector workers and dubbed their behaviour atrocious.
Teachers end a two day strike due to a pay dispute today while nurses and rank and file police officers have locked horns with the Government over wages.
Opposition leader, Portia Simpson Miller, in a release today urged the government to come down off its high horse and engage the public sector workers.
"The treatment of Jamaican workers over the past two and a half years has been atrocious. It is time for the government to return to the bargaining table, to sit with all the groups of workers to have meaningful discussions on all outstanding wage and labour related issues and arrive at win-win solutions,” Simpson Miller said.
She said the Bruce Golding-led administration had drifted from the ideals of party founder and National Hero Sir Alexander Bustamante and had resorted to subtle threats of intimidation against workers who were contemplating industrial action.
"It is time for the government to take the people into its confidence, show respect and civility to all workers, consult not insult, have dialogue and not monologue and to be compassionate and not condescending," she said
JamaicaObserver.com
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
THE Opposition People's National Party has lashed the government's handling of public sector workers and dubbed their behaviour atrocious.
Teachers end a two day strike due to a pay dispute today while nurses and rank and file police officers have locked horns with the Government over wages.
Opposition leader, Portia Simpson Miller, in a release today urged the government to come down off its high horse and engage the public sector workers.
"The treatment of Jamaican workers over the past two and a half years has been atrocious. It is time for the government to return to the bargaining table, to sit with all the groups of workers to have meaningful discussions on all outstanding wage and labour related issues and arrive at win-win solutions,” Simpson Miller said.
She said the Bruce Golding-led administration had drifted from the ideals of party founder and National Hero Sir Alexander Bustamante and had resorted to subtle threats of intimidation against workers who were contemplating industrial action.
"It is time for the government to take the people into its confidence, show respect and civility to all workers, consult not insult, have dialogue and not monologue and to be compassionate and not condescending," she said
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