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Linden Hospital staff protests

Nov 28, 2013 News

 

Protest action by the staff of the Linden Hospital Complex, entered its third day yesterday, as the employees remained resolute in their decision to continue industrial action until their needs are met.
Calling the recent increase of five percent to public servants wages by Government an ‘imposition’, the employees began their protest on Monday, and vow to continue every day, between twelve and one o’ clock.
The peeved workers are demanding an increase of no less than 25 percent.
They have adamantly refused to accept the five percent increase in public servants’ wages and salaries which was recently announced by Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon.
GPSU representative, Maurice Butters, in an interview with this newspaper said that the increase was an imposition, as no prior consultations or negotiations were conducted with the GPSU.
Butters said that letters were written to the Public Service Minister requesting meetings to address the issue of the workers’ wages and salaries, since April last, but to date there has been no response.
He added that letters were also written to the Minister of Labour seeking his intervention.
The GPSU representative said that ‘enough is enough’.
“We believe the time has come for this to stop, and for them to get back to the negotiating table,” Butters declared.
Butters pointed out that the GPSU had consulted with President Donald Ramotar on the issue of the five percent increase before its ‘imposition’.
“We even met with President Ramotar and he agreed to stop this imposition and requested that the GPSU provide him with a three-year plan.
“The collective agreement between the government and the Union must be respected…what about our allowances and overtime which is now being denied without an increase since 1980?”
The protest action is expected to continue today, and according to reports, there are plans to soon stage a massive rally to sound the workers rejection of what they also described as an imposition, by Government. (Enid Joaquin)

 

 

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