16 Years of Union’s CBA Negotiations to Come to an End on June 5th

We also heard from Nadia Caliz, the President of the Belize National Teachers Union. Caliz told reporters that both groups have agreed on June fifth to sign off on proposal twenty-two and the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Here is what she told us.

 

Nadia Caliz, National President, B.N.T.U.

“What we did is that we looked at a number of proposals that we sent to government approximately two weeks ago. We gave them time to go through it so today’s meeting was for us to discuss those things. WE did look at the increment suspension. We looked at tax reform, pension reform and the fact that we had additional suggestions for government, they will be going back to their teams to address those things and we will be going to our team to share with them some of the things we agreed to. To very important things happened on June fifth we will be signing off on proposal twenty-two and closing off the CBA and we got the government to agree to paying fifty percent of what is due to people who have retired, at least in the past thirty days because there are so many people out there hammering for what is rightfully there’s. And through today’s negotiations government has committed to giving those retired persons fifty percent of what is rightfully there’s, So for us that is a plus.”