KHMHWU Rejects GOB’s Initial Pension Proposal

The call for pension justice continues at Belize’s flagship hospital. The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Authority Workers Union is once again urging the government to establish a pension scheme for its members, over three hundred of whom face retirement without one. We’ve been following this story closely, and tonight, there’s a new development. The union has officially rejected the government’s latest proposal, delivered just hours after their June fifth meeting. Now, all eyes are on a second letter from the government, one that could determine the next steps in this ongoing fight for financial security.

Andrew Baird, President, KHMHWU

 ”Immediately the night of June fifth, our union met with our membership. We tabled what was presented to us. Right after the meeting, we wrote a letter to the chair, copied to all the government officials that was a part of the meeting, to state or dissatisfaction with the letter written by the chairman and that and our condemnation to such letter. It was promised to us that they will go back to the Prime Minister and the other counterparts of the government to reconsider the four percent and come back to us June twentieth, which is tomorrow, with their reconsideration of the four percent. So, we are waiting for tomorrow eleven fifty-nine p.m. Now ,let me make this clear. At no point in time did our members give us a mandate to remove our plan, tier action, industrial action from the table. We still continue our work to rule at this time and wearing our T-shirts. Tomorrow can determine whether we move forward with the other affairs.”