PSU Dismisses Former President’s Claims of Owed Payments

Last month, former Public Service Union President, Gerald Henry Jr., was back in the news after he took current PSU president Dean Flowers to court for salary payments he alleges are owed to him. According to Henry, the union owes him for fifty-four days of leave, adding up to more than six thousand dollars, money he claims was promised to him by the Ministry of the Public Service for his accumulated leave days. It’s been a lengthy court battle, one that has not yielded successful results for Henry so far. We asked Flowers if the parties involved are any closer to a resolution. Here’s what he had to say.

 

Dean Flowers, President, Public Service Union

“I wouldn’t be able to comment on that matter because that matter, as far as I’m concerned, is a moot matter. I think that matter, if you look at your archives, it would’ve been brought before the courts as far back as 2021 or 2022, or I might be wrong, perhaps it was back in 2023, thereabout in November of 2023. In my view a claim that really was no basis when you look at the law and when you look at what really occurred, it holds no basis. And five years after to continue to beat what, in my words is a dead horse, is a waste of my time. And I want to state it clearly here. We just wasted two minutes of your time having that conversation. That’s a sad reality of this matter. I don’t know what traction the good gentleman intends to get out of this latest round of what is a circus, in my humble opinion. But we are a union that is always open to dialogue and we will continue to dialogue and follow the laws where they’re applicable, but where they’re not applicable. We will be very dismissive of them and that is our view at this point in time.”