But whether it is 7% or 17%, the fact is that the public officers take issue with that proposal because they have had to deal with the consequences of a reduced paycheck these last few months.
Today, the PSU President told us that the union's membership has suffered significantly:
Dean Flowers - President, Public Service Union
"It's been a little over eight months since the cut was effected, and it's been - well, over a year, and about seven months, that our increments were frozen because let's not forget. Under the Barrow administration, our increment was frozen also, for a year or so. It's going on for two years that we have been stuck on salaries, of course, that goes back to 2017, which is a damn shame, as I've said on this administration, despite the hypocrisy of them saying, Thank you. You can't tell me 'thank you' while screwing me. If you're going to tell thank you, then you should be giving me some pleasure, and not inflicting pain. I don't even want to dwell too much on the pain and suffering that has been reported to this union. We held a meeting on Wednesday, and the comments were not favorable from many public offices. As I said, some were fortunate enough to be able to see, you know what. For the first time in many years, I'm having to dip in the small savings that I had. And you know, we want to applaud those officers who have small savings to dip into. Unfortunately, there are other officers, Daniel, who have not only lost income but are now in greater debt."
