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| Police Federation wants wage talks to continue |
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| Thursday, 01 May 2008 | |
A show down is looming between the island's policemen and
women and the Ministry of Finance over wages.The Police Federation, which represents rank and file members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force wrote to the Finance Ministry this week requesting a meeting to jump start negotiations for a new wage contract. Chairman of the Federation, Corporal Raymond Wilson said members are getting restless over the long delay by the government to call them back to the table. He said the executive of the Federation met with officials of the Finance Ministry on April 3, but since then they have not heard anything further. "At the end of that meeting, the persons who we met with promised that we would have met within a short time ... today being (May 1) and not having heard anything at all, we wrote to the Ministry earlier this week pointing out what was said to us." Corporal Wilson added that the Federation had taken note of the comments by Minister without Portfolio in the Finance Ministry Dwight Nelson who warned that the government's offer agreed to under the MOU 3 was final. "The police federation will take a professional approach and therefore will not respond in any formal way since we have started a process of negotiation and will await any discussion around the negotiation table for us to clearly understand what it is that the government is saying to us," he said. |