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GeneralPSU withdraws threat of election go-slow

BELIZE CITY, Mon. Nov. 2, 2020– Last week, the president of the Public Service Union (PSU), Gerald Henry, told the media that members of the union who are working at the Elections and Boundaries Department would be encouraged to not report to polling stations on the day of general elections.

The threat was made amid a loggerhead between the PSU and the leaders of the PUP and UDP, one of whom will soon be Belize’s prime minister, as a result of the two leaders’ possible plans for retrenchment after the elections and their reticence to dialogue with the union about the issue.

The PSU believes that both the UDP and PUP leaders, after the elections, will engage in some form of retrenchment in order to cut the 45-million-dollar monthly wage bill.

Gerald Henry told the media that the union has decided to step back from plans for the proposed go-slow on election day. The union has told the government that it should consider removing unnecessary contract workers from the GOB workforce, and cutting overspending on luxury vehicles and other perks for some public officers and contract workers before they think about terminating any public officer.

Henry believes that the height of election season was the perfect time to call for strike action to express their opposition to any possible retrenchment.

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