And the good faith is necessary because the two sides do not agree on the issue of sugar redundancy. The stevedores maintain that they are owed redundancy after the sugar shipments went south to Big Creek. That is a point government does not agree on. Still GOB has agreed to make a goodwill payment:
Which is why the stevedores point to the decision of the Essential Services Arbitration Tribunal:
Reporter
"Is that 1.5, they are promising you the 100,000 aside. Is it just a good faith payment?"
Leonora Flowers, CWU President
"That's what the Prime Minister deemed it to be, but we are acting and we're relying on the strength of the tribunal that they set up, the government set of a tribunal, the ESAT, The Essential Services Appeal Tribunal."
"We're reliant on a strength of that and it said, go and negotiate an award."
