Last week, we told you about how the Christian Worker's Union signed a memorandum of understanding with the Citrus Workers in the South.
It's supposed to result in better wages for those workers from the Citrus Products of Belize Limited, and while we had the opportunity, we asked CWU President Matura-Shepherd to explain how it will work:
Audrey Matura-Shepherd, President, Christian Workers Union
"The main thing in that proposal was that workers got a salary increase and that is always good news for workers. It is done in four phases; phase 1 is in the first year; they get 17 cents increase on the hour. Phase two, which is the following year, they get 18 cents on the hour and then the third and fourth year they get 20 cents increase on the hour. That aspect is good, however, that's an agreement that was negotiated by our predecessor and now it was just being implemented. We had some fine tuning we had to do and of course we know that CPBL has a new board of management so we wanted to make sure that they also agreed with what was negotiated by their previous board."
Matura-Shepherd says that the intention of the CWU is to unionize all CPBL workers.
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