But for all the condemnation that he heaps on those 21 CEO's, Flowers, in his union's press release does not call on the government to rescind the increment. Nope. In fact his union release demands an increase of 7.5% for the members of his union. We asked where's the moral high ground in that?:
Dean Flowers, President - PSU
"We're asking for a salary adjustment of 7.5%. And we're not asking in the sense of begging for consideration. We're saying to the government of Belize, whether it was under the UDP, what it was, what it is under the PUP, you have withheld seven, a minimum of 7.5%, salary from public officers. So we're demanding that 7.5% now. We're not about to enter into negotiation for our 7.5%."
"We're saying if you can give, the your CEO caucus and your cabinet secretary and by extension yourself, because there is no way any minister will continue to sit and watch the CEOs earn more than them. That's foolish for any one of us to think that the ministers will not get an equivalent salary adjustment. That's foolish."
"And so we're saying, look, give us what we deserve and what you've withheld from us, our 7.5%, and that's non negotiable."
Jules Vasquez
"The criticism that you have vacated the moral high ground by saying, basically, cut me in or cut it out. What you all are saying, it's not that you all are asking in your release that it be reversed."
"You all are saying that we want, since the pie is so grand, we, the public officers want the slice of it. How do you answer that criticism?"
Dean Flowers, President - PSU
"No, I don't think that that's a fair criticism, Jules. I think that we have continuously shown to the Belizean public that we are prepared to continue, to serve for, for a salary that is, that is less than, than the coming to, to, to, to the kind of work that we do."
"We have our specialists, in several of our, our technical persons, I'm referring to when I speak to specialists who are still entering this service with, with master's degree and being, being proposed, 31 and $34,000. So we're grossly underpaid."
"We're saying, in fairness, we. are the heavy lifters. We are out there to make it happen. No CEO is out there doing the hard work. Jules. They are just showing up for the most part and sign. Decide who gets the contract, decide who and get victimize. Decide who won't get promoted, decide who and get hired and decide for who they will break the rules after who they will uphold the rules and that is in essence what they do."
"We have no problem if this is this, if this will be the new, the new, the new approach by successive governments whereby they believe that those at the helm, are supposed to be compensated, handsomely. We have no problem with that. But for us at the bottom, who do the heavy lifting man cut we een and treat us fairly."
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