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The Joint Trade Union Movement is responding to government's move to increase the minimum wage for public sector workers, as well as the 5% offer for the next bargaining period. At a news conference today, JTUM President Ancel Roget addressed these and other Budget 2025 announcements, giving the government a resounding 'F' grade. Rynessa Cutting reports.

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00:00We give the minister, for yet another time, a big F for failure, failure to address the
00:07needs of the people, failure to address the needs of the workers, failure to address the
00:11suffering, failure to address the crime in this country.
00:14We give the minister a big F, him and his government.
00:19The joint trade union movement is giving the government a failing grade for the 2025 budget.
00:25As according to JATOM, the government had but two primary mandates, which it did not
00:30deliver on.
00:31What do you have a government for?
00:34One, to make sure that the citizens are safe and secure, and they feel safe and secure.
00:39To make sure that their standard of living is maintained and increased, built upon, at
00:45least maintained, all of which is not happening, did not happen, but most of all, after listening
00:53to him, there is no hope of that happening on any near horizon at all.
00:58He lashed out at the government for what he described as an attempt by the government
01:02to sway vulnerable voters ahead of the next general election, by its decision to raise
01:07the minimum wage for public sector workers, including CPEC and MTS.
01:13What Imbod is trying to do is to, by promising some measly increase for those categories
01:20of workers, that it would not even begin to address their woeful situation.
01:26What he is trying to do is to create a little vote bank, to create some bus full, maxi full
01:33of people, to clap for them in their political rallies and so on.
01:40That is support for their political rallies and their political meetings, as they try
01:45to get themselves back into governance.
01:49And as for the Finance Minister's announcement that government is offering a 5% wage increase
01:54for the next bargaining period.
01:56This is a bullying government.
01:58They bully their way left, right and centre and Monday was a display of that.
02:04When you can have a Minister of Finance in the reading of a budget, says what they will
02:12do and what type of adjustment they are going to make, without no collective bargaining,
02:18without discussions.
02:19Roger also responded to the Finance Minister's indication that the government intends to
02:24finalise the sale or lease of the Pointer Pier Refinery and sent this message.
02:30Political football now is about to play.
02:33The match is about to start for yet another occasion, where they are going to tell the
02:38people that they have shortlisted some three prospects, some three bidders for the refinery.
02:47The patriotic, the people's patriotic, the workers' patriotic, the only entity, the only
02:56company that would have been successful in all of the bids, including the last one, satisfying
03:02all of the requirements, had been left out.
03:07Every unfair game must play over.
03:11And rest assured, this is an unfair game.
03:14Vanessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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