But the joint unions did have an effect yesterday in Belize City when a total of around 900 teachers and public officers marched through the city streets.
They converged on the House of Culture where talks between government and the joint unions leadership resumed at 1:30 pm.
And they didn't come out until after 7:00 last night - a little more than 5 hours of negotiations. And just like the first set of consultations, there isn't much information about the details of that meeting. When it ended last night, our 7News team was waiting outside and caught up with the BNTU president, Elena Smith, as she left the House of Culture.
While she was tightlipped, she did say another meeting was planned for Thursday.
Elena Smith, President, BNTU
"We are not finished yet, you know, we only did a portion of the discussions today and we'll come back on Thursday for the second portion of the discussion."
Courtney Menzies:
"What was it like in there meeting with the government, what was the energy like?"
Elena Smith, President, BNTU
"I think as usual we had some cordial and some frank discussion and from now we'll go to membership and we come back and finalize matters."
Courtney Menzies:
"Do they seem willing to yield to some of the priority list that you mentioned this morning?"
Elena Smith, President, BNTU
"Well I don't want to get into that ye because we still have the list to complete so I prefer to do that when we've gone through the entire list."
Courtney Menzies:
"But they did put forward proposals?"
Elena Smith, President, BNTU
"Yes."
The Government side was led by Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde. He was acting Prime Minister until today when the Prime Minister returned to the country after leave.
