With the case dismissed, the union says the dispute will now return to direct negotiations with the Port of Belize. However, the always fiery Stevedore Bruce Diaz, expressed frustration with the process:
Bruce Diaz, Stevedore
There's been many entities.The city council sat down and they signed their CBA. Central Bank sat down and they signed their CBA. None of them had an ESAT set on their heads. We, the stevedores are working along with the government if they work along with us."
"But it seems totally now that they had dismissed everything because of a confidential report. And you know what, basically, a confidential report means, all of us could be here and I take out a gun and I shoot this person in his head right now, and none of us can be a witness to it."
"We have to destroy our files within certain days. So that is a confidential report, and we did not agree unto that. We agreed unto certain things that was set into the confidential report on the eighth of August."
"Now they revised it and brought back the six page. As Madam President said, that six page does not assist nor come in no way with the whole confidential report."
