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Chamber Chastises Unions/GOB
posted (May 15, 2020)
Government and its major unions, the PSU and the BNTU remain at loggerheads tonight. A compromise worked out on Wednesday went by the wayside, reportedly after the unions tried to change the language in the agreement.

Now, the Chamber of Commerce has weighed in - and the language it's using, isn't too delicate. The business group says, quote "this debate is totally unacceptable...To now witness a debate about pay increases, to see public sector workers' refusal to relinquish their increment (or any other form of compensation) at a time when thousands are losing their jobs completely; when businesses are having to close their doors, suggests that too many involved in this debate are out of touch with the current reality we are universally facing." End quote.

Their statement ends by imploring the Government and the public servants to start discussing ways to make running the government less costly to Belizean taxpayers.

The Chamber urges both sides to, quote, "immediately reorient their approach and come together to discuss making government less costly so that each member of the population -including the unemployed- doesn't have to carry the additional burden of paying $250 each month to maintain a government that is far too costly for our population's size, unemployment and poverty rates." End quote.

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