Yes or No? G.O.B. Says No Response to Their Offer of Compensation

Henry Charles Usher

It’s been seventeen days to date since the public officers have been on strike…and even longer for teachers. Minister Henry Charles Usher says despite several compensation packages being presented to the Joint Unions Negotiating Team, G.O.B. has yet to receive a response.

Henry Charles Usher, Minister of Public Service, Constitutional & Political Reform

“The longer it continues, the longer it will take for us to get the financial recovery, the economic recovery that we need because we need everybody to be onboard. We need to be working in unity to turn this thing around. So if you have some of our partners out there refusing to show up to work, continuing with their industrial action – they have every right to – but all you are signalling to us is that you want to delay the inevitable. You want to delay when we can recover. We will recover – I have no doubt about it – but let’s get it done, let’s start now. We have reached out to them; we have spoken to the Joint Unions Team. We have offered numerous compensation packages which to date none of them have been accepted by the Joint Union Team. What more can the government do? We know that we have to go through this. It’s like going through a storm; we want to make sure when we get out of the storm, the ship is still intact.”