Unions Will Respond to G.O.B.’s Latest Offer

Elena Smith

The offers made by PM Briceño to the unions last Thursday are, for all intents and purposes, government’s final proposal.  There is no date for when both sides return to the table, however, the unions plan on formally responding to the prime minister’s offer in the days ahead.

Senator Elena Smith, National President, B.N.T.U.

“We should be responding to that document, the last offer, the last supper.  We will be responding to that as joint unions and we would be pointing out those errors based on our discussions.  Again, we must understand that as we go through these meetings we end up with some verbal agreements and at the end it was expected that at the last meeting that we would have had, we would have put those agreements in writing and we would have signed off, both sides would have signed off on them and that document would have had all of the things that we would have agreed to in those meetings from the beginning until the last meeting.  However, as we shared with you, all of them weren’t included and so now we would have to write back to them and point out those areas that need adjusting to ensure that they are captured correctly as per our agreements in those meetings.”