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Thursday, February 20, 2025

JTUM again calls for Govt to remove mid-January deadline

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AKASH SAMAROO
1154 days ago
20211224
FLASHBACK - Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi , top right, hosts a virtual meeting with trade union leaders, on December 21st, 2021.

FLASHBACK - Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi , top right, hosts a virtual meeting with trade union leaders, on December 21st, 2021.

AKASH SAMA­ROO

 

The stand­off con­tin­ues be­tween the Gov­ern­ment and the Joint Trade Union Move­ment (JTUM) on the planned vac­ci­na­tion pol­i­cy, with the unions to­day re­it­er­at­ing that they will on­ly of­fer their rec­om­men­da­tions once the mid-Jan­u­ary dead­line is re­scind­ed.

Yes­ter­day, the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al said that is not an op­tion and he urged JTUM to pro­pose al­ter­na­tives to tack­ling the COVID-19 cri­sis, some­thing he said they re­fused to do dur­ing Wednes­day's meet­ing.

How­ev­er, JTUM leader An­cel Ro­get said it is far­ci­cal to come to a dis­cus­sion with an un­com­pro­mis­ing bot­tom line al­ready in place. Ro­get said those sug­ges­tions will on­ly be dis­cussed once the mid-Jan­u­ary vac­ci­na­tion dead­line is tak­en off the ta­ble.

Mean­while Ro­get, who ad­mit­ted to re­ceiv­ing his boost­er shot yes­ter­day, said he and JTUM took um­brage to the AG at­tempt­ing to paint them as an­ti-vax. Ro­get said the po­si­tion of JTUM has al­ways been pro-choice. He said he has en­cour­aged peo­ple to take the vac­cine, but it should not be a forced mea­sure.

Ro­get said the Gov­ern­ment must re­alise that many do not trust them and he again called on the Prime Min­is­ter to re­move the dead­line and have mean­ing­ful dis­cus­sions with them.

Ro­get added that if in fact the true na­ture of this ini­tia­tive is to down­size the Pub­lic Ser­vice, then they should be hon­est with the pop­u­la­tion.

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