Next week, the PSU will join a Budget Consultation with a Government contingent headed by Deputy Prime Minister, Cordel Hyde, along with Minister of Education, Francis Fonseca, and Minister of the Public Service, Henry Charles Usher.
That's on Wednesday morning - and, in advance of that, the Minister of Education told us today it's too early to discuss any pay cuts:
Hon. Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education
"Well, absolutely no decisions have been made about any of that. That is all talk. I don't know where that's coming from. As you know the government is engaged in budget consultations. We are having consultations with the private sector and I have been ask by cabinet to lead the consultations with the unions. So we are meeting next week with the public service union, with the BNTU, with the NTUCB and the association of senior managers. All of those unions will be consulted and coming out of those consultations is the objective is to try and arrive at some consensus, some common ground on how we can meet and fill this massive financing gap that we have been left by the previous administration who just washed their hands and walked away leaving the country in a 500 million dollar hole. When Mr. Barrow very casually and nonchalantly said Apres moi, le deluge (after me, the flood). He was not kidding."
