00:00According to former finance minister Carl Minbut, PSA members are in an uproar over the government's alleged inability to deliver the promised 10% wage increase.
00:12We had offered public servants 4% and 5%. And we had said if they come because we start to negotiate the 5, the 4 and the 5, and we were going to 6, 4 and 6 is 10.
00:26I understand these long-brained people are telling public servants that when we tell you 10, we meant 4 and 6.
00:36I'm not joking. I've seen that on a private PSA chat. Somebody said it for me.
00:43They're crossing like blue that UNC said they will just add 1 to the PNM 5 and the 4 and make it 10.
00:50Imbert is reminding the public that such a wage increase would cost the country in the vicinity of $10 billion at a time when the government is experiencing what he calls a money crunch.
01:02I hear that workers in the Eastern Regional Health Authority have not been getting their salaries. Just the other day, parliamentary staff is not getting their salaries. We get it late. And all kind of excuses. But it tells me there is a money crunch because they don't know what they are doing.
01:21MP Keith Scotland also took a job at another UNC election promise to create 50,000 jobs.
01:30The UNC promised 50,000 jobs. But what they didn't tell you is they were subtracting it. They weren't adding 50,000. So they reached 25,000 now because they have subtracted 10,000 CPEP, 10,000 URP not working, 4,000 forestry.
01:50So they reach half. If you add WASA, they cross over to half. If you add rural development, they're reaching 30,000. And we haven't, we have not reached three months as yet.
02:06With the most recent layoffs, I was looking at the employment figures tonight. When PNM left office, the number of persons unemployed was about 30,000, 31,000 somewhere around there.
02:25In three months, they have sent the number of unemployed people from 30,000 to 50,000. They take our unemployment rate from 4% to 7% in three months. That is governance UNC style.
02:44Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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