Communications Workers Group to Expand Advocacy Beyond BTL Dispute

Despite reaching a settlement with Belize Telemedia Limited, the Belize Communications Workers for Justice group says its advocacy efforts will continue.  Following today’s negotiations, spokesperson Emily Turner indicated that the organization plans to expand and remain active on broader national matters affecting workers and citizens.  Turner explained that while the group was formed around the severance dispute, its members now intend to use the platform to advocate wider social and labour issues.

Emily Turner, BCWJ Spokesperson: “We believe and we have met as a group that this this workers movement will continue. We do have other related to this we do have the issue of the of the income tax for example that we have to deal with but then the national issue of the acquisition is still something that we want to have a we want to have our input in. We want to to understand it, we want to be able to to ask for the things that we need to see. We need, like other groups are saying, we need due diligence, proper due diligence. We need total transparency. We need to see these things. And we also, under this, we are forming a general workers union where we want to represent workers across Belize in different sectors. That’s the intention of BCWJ. You may see that we may change the name, but that’s the intention. We won’t go away. Everybody’s very much on board and interested in making that voice for the workers of Belize.”

We will have more from the BCWJ in Wednesday’s newscast./