According to Teck, despite the ongoing industrial action, there is literally a disconnect between B.N.T.U.’s leadership and the teachers in this remote location. There are no telephone or internet services to be found in these parts.
Domingo Teck
“The strike is one that we do participate in fully. We are members of the B.N.T.U., we are financial members of B.N.T.U. We’ve participated in demonstrations but one thing that we, that has us like this is the communication. We are really disconnected from knowing what is out there because everything is virtual now, San Benito Poite is nowhere to be found with internet access, neither phone calls. We do participate when we know that there is demonstration and then when it comes to strike, to close down the school, we participate in that. Since we already told the parents that we were going to open this May tenth, we just come to see how much are coming, how much of our students are coming and that is how we find o
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Christopher Coye
The Unions and the Government have been negotiating for weeks now trying to arrive at an amicable solution to an impasse brought on by a salary cut and increment freeze to public officers and teachers. The situation is so tense that the representative unions, the Public Service Union and the Belize National Teachers Union are on strike. The Association of Public Service Senior Managers on Wednesday May 5th also served notice that they will also be joining the other unions on strike. It’s a situation that has government negotiators engaged but based on comments that the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance has made, it seems there is a disconnect between the offers being made to the unions and the extent to which Government will go to fulfill those offers.
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“Do not play with our salary increase. We deserve it. We have worked for it. I must say also that the business community said we shouldn’t get our salary increase and I must remind the business community that it is the union that negotiated for salary increases for public officers and teachers. The raise that we get, we go and buy from them in their stores. So we deserve our eight and five percent salary increases.”
Paul Lopez, Reporting
Former B.N.T.U. National President, Anthony Fuentes made those remarks at a joint union press conference in 2005. At the time, the People’s United Party formed the Government. Prime Minister Said Musa was preparing to present an austere 2005/2006 budget on January nineteenth, 2005.
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Over 1,200 workers at the New Holland Apparel textile plant in Nicaragua struck May 7 following a meeting between union and company representatives in which the firm refused a proposal to pay three months of wages when the plant closes on May 28. Instead, management offered, and the union accepted, a one-time payment of 700 Córdobas, equal to a little less than US$20, an amount called a “joke” by workers. Some 800 workers have signed a petition opposing the agreement “because our rights are violated, and an agreement was made with which we are not in accord.”
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