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Jules Vasquez
"One of your criticisms is that, okay, you have to make sacrifices. You can't try and bring your salary in line with what you feel is suitable for someone in the private sector or at a multi-million dollar utility or statutory board."

Dean Flowers, President - PSU
"And, and that's exactly the reason why we would have included it just because, we heard nonsense from the cabinet secretary with the utmost of respect, I say that, but we heard that nonsense from him before."

"75% of them would have never been enjoying the compensation package that they're currently enjoying in the public sector, in the private sector. And so for a lot of them, they're on cloud nine because they would have never, the private sector would never offer some of them, because some of them are simply not qualified, to hold such prestigious positions."

"And I dare 75% of them to step forward and say, this is my payslip that I was making in the private sector to silence me."

"And this is the, and this is what really hurts because they're exploiting the situation, they're exploiting the public. They're exploiting the fact that Belizeans are keyboard warriors, that Belizeans are, we we we sit, we gripe, we drink a beer, we smoke a weed, we complain and we do absolutely nothing because we continue to believe in this peaceful, constructive revolution that was that, that was imposed or imposed on us in 1981."

"And so in essence, what our press release aims to do is to inform our general membership that, look, we can continue having the watercooler conversations, we can continue, sending 1,000,001 text messages to the branch chairs and the president about what we're going to do, or we can step up, step forward and say, president it's time for you to served notice on the government of Belize. Because this kind of abuse, we will not continue to tolerate."