{"id":528,"date":"2009-12-24T06:55:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T12:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/?p=528"},"modified":"2009-12-24T06:55:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T12:55:47","slug":"public-service-union-encouraged-by-dlps-campaign-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/general\/public-service-union-encouraged-by-dlps-campaign-promise\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Service Union encouraged by DLP’s campaign promise"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU)\"\"<\/a> is encouraged by pledges of the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) during the 2009 election campaign.<\/p>\n

DLP Leader and Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit had spoken of a review of the minimum wage and assured that government employees who earned less than EC$1,000 a month will make more, within 100 days of the party\u2019s term in office.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am hoping that in spite of any resistance that we may get from the employers\u2019 federation and from the [Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce] DAIC especially, that the government will implement something that is very reasonable,\u201d said DPSU General Secretary Thomas Letang, adding that a minister of government has in the past put up \u201cresistance\u201d as regards improving conditions of \u201cnon-established\u201d workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am hoping that this time around, that we can see some drastic improvement to the working conditions of non-established people, and one of the things that we would want to see is a removal of that category of public officers, referred to, as non-established,\u201d Letang noted.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also keeping up hopes that a shortage of inadequate staff in the nursing, and Fire and Ambulance Services, will soon be \u201csomething of the past\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Letang has also called on Dominicans to focus on unity and put the 2009 election campaign behind them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will need to try to build back broken bridges, re-establish relationships and seek forgiveness for the wrongs done to friends and colleagues. As a nation we are divided, and are struggling, to deal with the issues of crime and violence, unemployment, low wages, discrimination in various forms, HIV\/AIDS, chronic non communicable diseases and sexual and economic exploitation\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU) is encouraged by pledges of the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) during the 2009 election campaign. 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