NDC workers deserve some semblance of “the good life” too.

Nov 29, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor,

Recent announcement of a 7% tax free, retroactive salary increase for public servants earning less than $100,000 may offer some relief to workers earning over $60,000. What about those earning less than $60,000?
This category should have been offered at least 12% to help alleviate the huge disparity in salary in the public service. Like the higher income workers, these low income workers have families to take care of and shop their groceries at the same supermarkets like the higher income workers.
Had there been a consumer index kept by the consumer protection agency, it would have shown that the Coalition’s budget of 2017, having taxed previously zero rated goods, had completely obliterated this class of worker wages on food alone. This class of workers needed a higher percentage increase to put food on their tables.
A KN article on Nov 25th stated that the proposed salary increase covers, “those employed in Ministries, departments not under ministerial control, regional administrators and public service related agencies, commission secretariats and those who are engaged on contract positions reflected on the inventory of authorized positions of the traditional public services and persons on contract outside on the inventoried positions. “
This is definitely unclear to the people involved in the cleanup of my country – the NDC and council workers. Last year when the government gave a similar increase, some NDC passed it on to their workers. Some did not, at least that did not occur at the Eccles/ Ramsburg NDC.
It is rumoured that PPP controlled NDCs are in the habit of stymieing benefits intended by the government to ease hardship in the communities as a deliberate ploy to induce people to blame the Government – all for political mileage.
The NDC workers on a salary of $45,000 per month are controlled indirectly by the government, thereby making us public servants too. In addition, this group of workers is tasked with doing the lowest level of work that by all means is not ‘smell-friendly’, that is by practically shoveling the faeces out of the environment to make it clean so that the elite politicians can enjoy “the good life”.
The NDC workers deserve a little semblance of the good life too. In this regard, they would like to implore the Minister of Finance, the President or whosoever is responsible to include them in this 7% tax-free retroactive increase for this Christmas season.

Yours truly
Drainer Rat.

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