Why is Lambert Brown and other union bosses so quiet !

How once might, powerful and vociferous people have all gone quiet and the Private sector who makes upwards of 25% returns per annum  and refuses to pay taxes, happens to be the voice that we hear urging workers to take 5% over two years.

The structural adjustments program in Jamaica has been going on since the 1970’s and I see no way this one is going to end any different from all the others, when the fundamental issues affecting the country are exactly the same.

1. The educational system is not better
2. The population is lazy and unproductive ( except having kids)
3. Productivity is on the decline
4. Food crop production has been steadily declining
5. Exports is on the decline
6. The dollar keeps losing value
7. Crime is rising
8. Investment ( FDI is down)
9. Energy cost is high and rising
10. Continue destruction of the forest hence extended periods of drought.

You cannot have a goals that you have to use extraordinary means to meet as it means these are not sustainable and as soon as the pressure is off your return to your normal position.

So when we get wages to 7% of GDP, what next ?

When we achieve the primary surplus target by stop paying people and starving the essential services of suppliers, what’s next?

These are performance targets that you meet but cannot sustain because their is nothing out there to support it hence failure is imminent.

As soon as the current IMF arrangement ends it will be ” as you were”.

Public sector workers have been threatened by the PNP Government, who has told them if you ask for more then 15,000 of you will have to go home and guess what the UNIONS have said NOTHING !

Amazing, I hope we see this new level of union behavior on a change of administration, if one to were ever occur.

Public sector workers have been short changed by their union affiliation with the government ( sell out) but the private sector is happy as the government wage offer sets the bench mark for future salary increases in the private sector.

This is one reason why they have been insisting that PS workers accept the 5% and move on. Where ever there is smoke their is fire.