NTUCB Backs Unions, Demands Government Accountability

The National Trade Union Congress of Belize is standing firmly behind its affiliate unions, including the B.N.T.U., P.S.U., APSSM, KHMHA Workers Union, and U.B. Faculty and Staff Union, as they push back against what they call unfair treatment by the government. In a strong statement, the NTUCB says workers have every right to protest, strike, and demand better, especially when their calls for salary adjustments and the unfreezing of increments are ignored—while top officials receive hefty contracts and pay raises. The NTUCB is calling on the Briceño administration to pay KHMHA workers their overdue pensions, reinstate salary increments and provide an eight-and-a-half percent raise, and restore the University of Belize’s ten-million-dollar subvention. The union umbrella group says it’s ready to take action, warning that continued neglect will only strengthen the collective voice of Belize’s workers.