The Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU) will hold another rally later today.
General Secretary of the Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU) Thomas Letang has said that there has not been any significant development in DPSU/government negotiations since their ‘salary negotiation solidarity rally’ which was held at the DPSU on April 11, 2019.
At that rally, Letang addressed hundreds of public officers on the grievances which affect them.
“What you see today is the beginning of things to come because we are going all out to get what we want and what is due to us. Nothing is going to keep us back and prevent us from going forward,” Letang told public officers at the rally.
Some of the issues outlined by Letang include the non-appointment of management boards at the Dominica Air & Seaport Authority (DASPA) and the Solid Waste Management Corporation, recognition for the staff at Discover Dominica Authority and salary increases for the workers at the Public Works Corporation.
He described the non-appointment of public officers who have been in acting positions for ten years, “total injustice.”
Letang said at today’s rally members and the general public will be briefed on the situation and will be informed of any further plans in moving forward.
The DPSU rally will be held from 4:30 this afternoon at the union’s headquarters in Roseau.
No changes to the spat-net of loopholes in the electoral system, no increase in salaries for public servants, non-appointment of management boards of statutory corporations, all these show a callous disregard for fair and honest governance and a depraved indifference to people’s quality of life. The clergy, the labour unions, the business sector should stop the talking and shut down the country. The air and sea ports’ workers, the nurses, the teachers, the fire and rescue personnel, all public servants, the private sector should come together and bring the country to a halt. These corrupt bandits running the country are impervious to words only mass demonstrations and consistent protests will force a breakthrough. A show of military force is no match for the determined and resolute will of the people. Only the collective efforts of the people will break the shackles that have kept them in bondage for the last nineteen years.
Hold strong brothers and sisters.