Estate Police Association President Deryck Richardson says MTS workers feel disrespected by a new wage proposal from the Chief Personnel Officer. The Association has rejected the offer outright, arguing that it fails to acknowledge years of stalled negotiations and the rising cost of living.
00:00The Estate Police Association says it has reached a breaking point over what it calls an unacceptable wage offer for officers assigned to MTS.
00:10President Derek Richardson told reporters the latest proposal shows a clear lack of respect for workers.
00:18There is no increase in salary for even 10 percent, yet they can even offer 10 percent to start at.
00:27Richardson says the association met with the Human Resources Department at MTS, where officers were told the offer on the table for the period 2016-2019 is just 2 percent.
00:41That is starting at 10 percent. So we receive an offer of 2 percent for one period, combined with the two periods that the PLM would have offered.
00:54So it seems as though the officers at MTS, different to other state sector workers, that we're not entitled to even an offer at 10 percent, which would not even increase the salary.
01:09He reminded that the previous 2 percent offer from 2013 to 2016 was rejected and says nothing has changed since.
01:16The decision of the chief personal officer through, of course, will have to be through the cabinet, is that for the period 2016-2019, the offer that is on the table for the estate police at NMTS is 2 percent.
01:32Previously, the PLM government would have offered 2 percent for the period 2013-2016, which we rejected.
01:39Never signed on to any such thing in NMTS, and we did not get a period, we did not get any offer for 2016 or 2019.
01:49Richardson says he is deeply disappointed, especially since the government has signed on to a workers' agenda, and because two cabinet ministers have roots in the labor movement.
02:01Yet, he says, they continue to be overlooked.
02:04How are we going to come now to be so damn disrespectful to offer us, to offer the EPA on behalf of the officers at NMTS 2 percent for 2016?
02:18The aim drag back the 2 percent from 2013, right?
02:25But they come now to tell us that the offer on the table from the chief personal officer is 2 percent.
02:33The EPA plans to take the matter back to its membership before deciding its next move.
02:39It feels like everybody wins except the estate police and except NMTS.
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