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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Trade unions criticize...sector (RJR)...</span>
One of the island's major trade unions is criticising the payment of millions of dollars in retroactive allowances to the country's Parliamentarians.It is reported that members of the House of Representatives last month received outstanding payments for upkeep and mileage allowances due from 2006.But the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) believes the move has sent a wrong signal to public sector workers.President-General, Kavan Gayle, says this is against the background of the Government's continued silence on the 7% wage increase due to the workers under MOU Three."I believe that making that payment to them is bad timing, given the fact that you have a number of public sector workers who have not received an increase, don't know when they will receive an increase and I think the best thing for them to do is to contribute it towards those public sector workers,"The BITU boss says the parliamentarians should contribute their retroactive allowances to a special fund to assist hard-pressed civil servants."The honourable thing for these Members of Parliament to do is to not accept this payment and as a kind gesture to contribute the outstanding payments owed to them to a fund to assist with the settlement for the public sector workers and we are calling on them to make that honourable gesture," Mr. Gayle said.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : Trade unions criticize...sector (RJR)...</span>
One of the island's major trade unions is criticising the payment of millions of dollars in retroactive allowances to the country's Parliamentarians.It is reported that members of the House of Representatives last month received outstanding payments for upkeep and mileage allowances due from 2006.But the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU) believes the move has sent a wrong signal to public sector workers.President-General, Kavan Gayle, says this is against the background of the Government's continued silence on the 7% wage increase due to the workers under MOU Three."I believe that making that payment to them is bad timing, given the fact that you have a number of public sector workers who have not received an increase, don't know when they will receive an increase and I think the best thing for them to do is to contribute it towards those public sector workers,"The BITU boss says the parliamentarians should contribute their retroactive allowances to a special fund to assist hard-pressed civil servants."The honourable thing for these Members of Parliament to do is to not accept this payment and as a kind gesture to contribute the outstanding payments owed to them to a fund to assist with the settlement for the public sector workers and we are calling on them to make that honourable gesture," Mr. Gayle said.