Last week, we told you about the stern press release that the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry sent out scolding the unions for haggling over an increment when the economy is in meltdown and the private sector is taking heavy losses. The unions and the Government can't agree on how to not pay this year's annual increment. Government wants to forego it, the unions want it deferred.
Both sides met last Wednesday and agreed on a compromise, but, by Thursday mornings, the unions allegedly changed the language of the compromise, and government then said the deal was off.
Well, according to reports, the PSU is conceding to the government's position. According to the Reporter Press, the union has reportedly decided that it will forego the payment, and won't press for a deferral, as was their previous stance.
At the start of the newscast, a spokesperson for the PSU told us via text message, quote, "I can confirm that we have agreed to use the word 'forego' instead of 'defer'. The underlying condition, however, doesn't change, which is that we will revisit and re-examine the government's financial situation in the future, with a view to see if we can, in fact, get the increment reinstated."
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