G.O.B. and Joint Unions are Back at the Negotiation Table

All eyes are on Belize City tomorrow, where government and union negotiators are set to meet once again. On the table? That long-standing demand for an eight-and-a-half percent salary adjustment. The government is expected to present its counterproposal and today, we asked Prime Minister John Briceño what the unions can expect. Here’s what he had to say.

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“What I have said with the unions, I will not comment. I want the ministers and deputy prime minister to be in charge of that. They will meet with the unions tomorrow as opposed to just sending the letter. We will meet with them, give them the letter and we hope that they are going to accept. We think we have been bending over trying to accommodate it as best as we can. But we are trying to do something not only for the unions but for the country, because at the end of the day it is all of us tax payers that have to pay that bill.”