ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC—The Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU) says it’s looking for a 15 % wage enhance for its members over a three-year interval.
DPSU basic secretary Thomas Letang instructed a gathering of the union’s membership that “now we have appeared on the price of inflation… and we’re proposing to the federal government that for the 2021-22 monetary 12 months, public officers be paid a 4 % wage enhance.
“For the years 2022-23, we’re proposing a 5 % wage enhance (and) for the years 2023-24, your govt is proposing a six % wage enhance.
“So, brothers and sisters, we’re proposing a 15 % wage enhance over a three-year interval. We can be instructed that the federal government launched into a reclassification train. We now have all the time stated to you {that a} reclassification train, particularly one the place giant teams of public officers are deprived, shouldn’t be a wage enhance.”
Letang instructed the membership that reclassification “shouldn’t be a wage enhance,” warning “so after we resolve brothers and sisters to face and to ship that message that we would like a wage enhance, and we would like one thing cheap and honest, I count on that no matter dream that you just now have, will turn into a actuality.”
Letang stated members must also stand in solidarity with employees at two state-owned entities, the place in a single case, the workers haven’t acquired a wage enhance for many years.
“ We should always have desires and visions to work in solidarity with our members at DASPA (Dominica Air and Seaport Authority) as a result of these workers are the exact same individuals who forfeited a wage enhance due to COVID, and they’re now being supplied will increase that don’t take the speed of inflation into consideration,” he stated, including “now we have to be in solidarity with them.
“We now have to be in solidarity with our members, our brothers and sisters at Uncover Dominica as a result of what has been instructed to them is that they won’t be getting a wage enhance after they haven’t acquired a wage enhance for over a decade,” Letang stated.
In the meantime, Cyprian Montrope, the president of the Civil Service Affiliation in St. Lucia, who additionally addressed the assembly, urged members to help the DPSU in its quest for elevated salaries.
“Too typically, we permit the chief to do all of the arduous work, however we, the members, solely need to know what the proportion enhance can be, not essentially giving them the help that may trigger that enhance to be what you count on it to be…and in addition the circumstances of labor.
“I urge you, the members, to present all of your help. Help means coming to conferences and talking to each member and non-member wherever you’re employed,” the St. Lucian commerce unionist stated.
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