And while the BTNU has found a willing ally in the PUP – and have gotten verbal support form all corners, the truth is the other major unions didn’t join them in masse in their nationwide marches yesterday: not the PSU, not the APSSM not the BCWU, not the BEWU and not the CWU’s varied memberships. The BNTU is determined but isolated and effective – and probably the favourite of students all over the country, who’ve gotten summer in October. But the one that really bugs the PUP is the PSU. Statistically, they have the largest membership – more than twice that of the BNTU, but historically that union has not been very united or effective. Today, their president concluded countrywide consultations on whether to join the BNTU but PUP leader John Briceno is not impressed with Eldred Neal. He called him a sell-out:..
Hon. John Briceno - Leader of the Opposition
"It is a delay tactic. They are afraid of their bosses, they have been compromised and that is why they have not been listening to the membership of the union because if they serious they could have all the meetings in one day. That's what the teacher's union have been doing, they need to listen, they need to listen to the membership."
The BNTU president who was in office at the time of the last major strike in 2005 went unto become a PUP Mayor for Punta Gorda Town.
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