Shake, Shake, Shake…

For a guvament with such a slim majority in parliament, they are so unbelievably arrogant.

They bully the public sector workers, yet bawl that they will not be bullied.

They break contracts, agreed to not too long ago, with not even a heads up to the other signatories, and then pretend as if the public sector workers are unreasonable.

All the while getting public relations help from their friend’s at the Jamaica Observer doing any and everything to disparage others, and their other friend’s at the Jamaica Gleaner who now ignore hot button issues on their front page, choosing instead to focus on “feel good” stories.

Oh the poor guvament. :sarcasm:

Now, in a further attempt to destroy worker’s rights in this country, Pearnel Charles is looking to break up the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT), with an aim to pad the party loyalists.

This is a sign to me that there will be severe job cuts coming in the near future and this latest move is their way of ensuring disputes go their way.

This from a party with Pearnel Charles, Dwight Nelson, that had Hugh Lawson Shearer, and the great Alexander Bustamante, all renowned for their contribution to the rights of the Jamaican worker.

Here they are now, circling their wagons, closing ranks, to protect their political asses.

I am sure when the people elected the guvament they expected better.

When the world’s economy was tanking, the guvament painted a fairytale ending. This left them and us woefully unprepared for the crisis and now the only thing the guvament can come up with is wage freezes, a precursor to massive job cuts that are sure to come.

Their inability to govern properly is now being blamed on the “economic downturn”, and not their apparent ineptitude.

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They disprove the adage that change is good. Daily.

Everybody Pay a Go Freeze!

Oh woe are the poor members of parliament, Ministers, and heads of guvament agencies whose pay will not rise with respect to the rise in the cost of living! Oh what are these multi-millionaires to do?

Dwight Nelson, in informing the country that all these peoples salaries will also be frozen, for being part of the public service is insulting, for a couple of reasons:

• With the millions they earn, some of them up to eight million a year, they are already in excellent shape to ride the hard economic times out.
• Many, many civil servants don’t see even 10% of that a year, and they were already stretched to their limits. Some are now considering not turning up for work when their money runs out, being unable to afford the transportation costs, lunch and other things taken into consideration for getting to work. I won’t hold it against them.
• We know they are going to find some other way to feed off the public coffers, either by marking trips overseas as official, or having the guvament pay for their vehicles,  or many other perks available to them, or even perks they can create for themselves. (Like Audley Shaw and his personal stoplight out by Heroes’ Circle.

So to come and tell the people that, when you are all sitting comfortably atop the salary scale, is a bitch slap to them.

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I can see Danville and Joan, agonizing over the tough decisions they will have to make, between keeping their current luxury cars or getting the ‘09 model..

We Really Cannot Afford This Guvament!

It is amazing that with the hard economic times, the ever growing number of people losing their means of income and the bleak forecast by sensible people (not the fairy tale dreamers in guvament), that this guvament is still, more than a year and a half after the election, is spending money like it can’t done.

Nineteen ministries, with its nineteen ministers and all their entourage, inclusive of consultants and constituency workers, all the staff necessary to do the work required all the equipment and furniture necessary to outfit the offices, and since the guvament doesn’t own these properties they occupy, all the rent they have to pay. All this and they are still hiring more consultants, buying more furniture (in some cases from the US) and having expensive tastes in personal transportation, and that john crow Dwight Nelson is hinting at cutting the workforce of the civil service?

Why doesn’t the guvament rein in its spending look to cut the expenditure generated by themselves before looking to cut jobs?

JOBS JOBS AND MORE JOBS!

More jobs were cut with Air Jamaica’s ditching of some of its routes to the US, adding to the ever growing number of people who ‘obviously’ were not included in the JLP’s election promises.

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What is interesting to note is that no one has come forward with statistical figures depicting the number of people who have lost their jobs since this guvament took power. It would be interesting to know the figures, but with a looming by-election or general election, dependent on the Dabdoub/Vaz ruling, i guess Bruce and company would not want such information out there.

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Who knew that by 2009 we would all be caught in Bruce’s “rampin’ shop”?

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I felt like apologizing for that one, but i won’t.