{"id":172235,"date":"2023-04-14T10:04:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=172235"},"modified":"2023-04-14T10:04:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:04:25","slug":"letter-unions-salary-increases-for-government-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/letter-unions-salary-increases-for-government-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Unions & Salary increases for government workers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dear Editor,<\/p>

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Getting a job within the government services is seen as primarily a social service.<\/p>\n

At the moment the government employs about 9,000 persons more than are needed. And it does not matter which government – ABLP or UPP..<\/p>

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The system is the same.<\/p>

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The Private Sector is moribund and is only interested\u00a0in a quick\u00a0turn over. Most of the local businesses are so badly managed that it is a surprise that they are even surviving.<\/p>\n

So the government has to step in and give jobs.<\/p>

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Notice I have used the word jobs twice because the majority of government employees do little or no work and offer poor if any service.<\/p>\n

Now to the teachers. They should receive increases based on performance and not across the board.<\/p>

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How many of the top 100 students in the Grade Six National Assessment Exams, CXC & CSEC exams, are from government schools?<\/p>

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Maybe 5 or 10%. So why are these government employed teachers being rewarded?<\/p>\n

Let us reward those who deliver the goods and not those who just go through the paces quite indifferently.<\/p>\n

Teaching is a vocation, not just a job.<\/p>\n

It is high time we change the way things are done in this country and we get serious and professional and take politics out of everything.<\/p>\n

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