KHMHA Workers Union to Meet with GOB on Thursday

As teachers wait for the government’s next move, another union is stepping up its demands. The executive of the KHMHA Workers Union is heading to the mediation table this Thursday, pushing hard for a long-overdue pension plan. Their focus? Securing benefits for employees who served between 2000 and 2017. Union President Andrew Baird says they’re done waiting and this time, they want more than promises. They’re calling on the Briceño administration to officially recognize them as public officers and make them pensionable. News Five will be following the talks closely.

 

Andrew Baird, President, KHMA Workers Union

“WE have seen recently where the government has added the coast guard to the government pension. They are deserving. I am not going to take that away from the coast guard. Even the teachers, all teachers are now pensionable by the government. There was the grant aided schools where those teachers are now pensionable, because the school was to pay  a certain percentage, now the government has took that on as a full package. But now, they are telling us that because they are near starting a contributory pension for public officers they cannot add anybody to the cookie jar, but they are doing that. That is an insult to us. We are suppose to be equal, as the teachers or the other public officers. As the national referral center we even do more.”