And so, while they are ready to talk - to make sure the balance of power is properly leveraged, first the unions have to flex. And - as we told you at the top of the story - it won't just be the Teachers. They officially have company. The PSU President indicated his Union's readiness:..
Mervyn Blades, President PSU
"Our membership had agreed that we will show our support and we will have people physically there at the demonstration because it's a joint effort. We keep hearing over the media that it's only BNTU, its BNTU, APSSM and PSU - all of us together doing the demonstration, so we will be out there."
Jules Vasquez
"Are you all hoping for a semi-shut down of the governments' operation?"
Mervyn Blades, President PSU
"No we are not at that level. What we are saying is that we got in each our branches a couple of our membership will be out because we are not at that level yet and so we just want to show solidarity to our brother, it's a joint effort, so we have to be out there even though we know we have a lot of essential services. We are getting people that are not mostly affected with those essential services because we are not at strike action yet."
And this evening, the Association of Public Service Senior Managers sent out a release announcing that it has approved a resolution to, quote: "JOIN THE ONE DAY PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION…TO PROTEST GOVERNMENT'S POSITION ON THE SALARY ADJUSTMENT FOR TEACHERS AND PUBLIC OFFICERS."
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