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Unions Tired of Talk and Promises

After October 28, the Bahamas Public Services union will "do whatever is necessary" to cause the government to understand the need to give civil servants a part of the pay raise they were promised since July, said union president, John Pinder.

While stopping short of saying that the public service would resort to a mass strike, he said he and other union leaders were beginning to feel that government's proposed December deadline was nothing more than a "stalling tactic".

The union president and other public service union leaders met with Foreign Affairs and Public Service Minister Fred Mitchell, on Monday, in what the unions said would be their last meeting if there were no "positive results".

"We don't need to have any more meetings if all we are going to do is continuously talk, talk, talk and there is no action," Mr. Pinder told the press. "There has been absolutely no resolution to any of the positions we have put forth to government," he added.

Posted by admin at October 7, 2003 11:10 AM