00:00We have this to deliver and that will now bring to an end our mission today.
00:07Peace will be the delivery of that, will we not?
00:10Respectfully, sir, I think your mission may have been fulfilled.
00:14We are at rest.
00:16Even after we, the Prime Minister, saw the public before you.
00:19After walking from Whitehall to the Prime Minister's residence,
00:23trade union members were unable to deliver their letter to Dr Rowley as intended
00:28and instead opted to leave the envelope stuck in his gate.
00:50Hundreds of trade union members and their leaders
00:53had earlier gathered outside the Prime Minister's office
00:56in protest of this government's treatment of workers.
01:00The CPO's position, the CPO's disrespectful position, is Rowley's position.
01:08In both positions, the leprechaun position is Rowley's position.
01:15Everything that goes on in the government, Rowley sanctions it.
01:22So if you are to blame anybody, blame Rowley.
01:26At the root of the trade union's contention with the government
01:29is government's policy with respect to wage negotiations.
01:34We say to them, if you want to make the four attractive for the trade unions,
01:40just as the SRC would have done, put us several, put us several.
01:48After the four, and a point five, don't forget the point five, and a point five,
01:53and offer all of us a 47.5% increase.
01:57On Friday, the Chief Personal Officer sought to make it clear
02:01that the increase in the Prime Minister's salary is actually closer to 25%
02:07and not 47%, as is being reported.
02:11The CPO, who is the secretary to the Salary Review Commission,
02:18oversaw the increase of his own salary by 30%.
02:24Having performed this self-serving task, he is now attempting to bully the unions
02:31to accept a paltry 2% for two, three-year periods of collective bargaining,
02:36that's six years, without the consolidation of cost of living allowance.
02:41Roger would like all workers to ponder on this message.
02:46If for one month the government does not work, or continues to not work,
02:54the country will run. The country will run smoothly.
02:59But if for that one month, or even one day, workers throughout this country don't work,
03:07this country will come to a screeching halt.
03:10Representatives of a few political parties were also present at the protests,
03:15including Gary Griffith, political leader of the NTA,
03:19UNC MPs Rushton Parry and Dinesh Rambli,
03:22and the political leader and deputy political leader of the Hope Party,
03:27Timothy Arnold-Smith and Karen Nunez-Teixeira.
03:31Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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