Dear Public Servants,
After meeting with the Interim Administration on Wednesday November 23, and with civil servants yesterday, there was a general agreement that the Administration failed to adequately address our concerns which led to a unanimous vote among those present at the meetings yesterday, to continue industrial action.
The CSA Management Council invited the Administration to engage in a meeting today, Saturday, November 26, to further discuss the outstanding issues with a view to resolving them and to avoid a strike, however, our requests have not been acknowledged.
Therefore the CSA Management Council with your majority support will be taking industrial action in the form of a strike against the Interim Administration for the reasons outllined below. The strike would take place November 28 and 29, 2011.
All Public Servants on Providenciales will gather at the parking lot of the Department of Immigration and Labour at 7:30 am where demonstrations will take place until 5pm.
All Public Servants on Grand Turk will gather at Emancipation square at 7:30 am. A motorcade will start from Emancipation Square and will end at the NJS Francis Building where demonstrations will continue until 5pm.
All Public Servants are asked to wear RED!
ISSUES
Failure to reduced the period of ban from the civil service from 4 years to 2 years
Failure to consider staff redeployment before voluntary or compulsory redundancy
Failure to complete a proper public sector reform assessment before redundancy
Unauthorized 10% salary deduction
Reduction of the period for housing allowance from 5 years to 3 years
Failure to provide gratuity for persons employed locally after April 5, 1992
Unfair pension policies
Unfair right sizing practices
Unfair salary deductions and regrading
Other National Issues
Increased taxation
Significantly reduced scholarship opportunities
Reduced social services support
Increasing unemployment
Reduced support for Youth programmes
Unfair Laws
