EIGHT DAYS before Government starts sending home thousands of public sector workers, the National?Union of Public Workers (NUPW) remains in the dark about who will be affected.
That’s because the list of names of those being axed – promised to the NUPW and the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) by Government before the action is taken – has still not been given to the unions.
What’s more, there are concerns within the union’s ranks that some Government technocrats were now suggesting the severing of the 3 500 workers will not be enough to meet Government’s needed budgetary cuts.
NUPW general secretary Dennis Clarke confirmed yesterday he had not yet seen the list and that the union was waiting to receive it before determining what action it would take on behalf of those to be retrenched.
He said the union already had plans to help those affected, but the measures would be disclosed only when the list was provided.
Speaking at the union’s Horatio Cooke Auditorium following the NUPW’s 70th anniversary Founders Day service, Clarke said the union’s interest was in those people who had to go home and in the 5 500 temporary workers, some of whom would also be left jobless.
