P.S.U. calls for “work to rule”

Monday is a public holiday, but when business resumes on Tuesday government employees belonging to the Public Service Union will be instituting a “work to rule” industrial action. This means that civil servants will perform their duties only during their scheduled working hours and not beyond. They are protesting the freezing of annual increments, instituted as part of government’s austerity programme. And while the public officers “work to rule”, their counterparts at Belize Telecommunications Limited will be taking the next step short of a walkout, embarking on an indefinite “go-slow”. They are protesting government’s alleged high handedness and lack of transparency in pushing the workers to accept a particular trust arrangement with Sunshine Holdings for their purchase of a twenty percent stake in B.T.L.