Nelson urge JTA to clarify salary negotiations
Published:Tuesday | January 29, 2008 | 10:24 AM
Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Senator Dwight Nelson, wants the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), to clarify its position on the public service salary negotiations.
The government is currently in negotiations with the various pubic sector groups, regarding a third collective wage agreement.
JTA indicated that it would not enter the negotiations, until the government settles on the proposal to bring the salary of public school teachers, within 80 percent of those in the private sector.
The government had committed to this undertaking in a 2006 Heads of Agreement it signed with the JTA.
Senator Nelson said he has not received a formal report from the JTA about its concerns.
He said he would be seeking to have a meeting with the JTA this week to have the matter clarified.