By Omar Anderson, Gleaner WriterUNION representatives on the 16-member monitoring and evaluation committee policing the recently-signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Government and unions representing public sector workers, has requested economic data from the Ministry of Finance to help with their deliberations.
The group met last week to update itself on the adherence to the MoU signed in February between the Government and major trade unions.
"We went through all the objectives and areas the Monitoring and Evaluation Committee said it would address," a source told The Gleaner. It could not be determined when the committee would meet again.
The monitoring committee was formed nearly a month ago to supervise the adherence to the terms of the MoU.
UNION REPRESENTATIVES
Union representatives on the committee include Senator Dwight Nelson, Lambert Brown, first vice-president of the University and Allied Workers' Union (UAWU); Wayne Jones, president of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA); Valda Lawrence-Campbell, president of the Nursing Association of Jamaica (NAJ); Helene Davis-White, general secretary of the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO); vice-president of the National Workers' Union (NWU) Vincent Morrison; Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) president Wentworth Gabbidon, and Keith Comrie, president of the Union of Schools, Agricultural and Allied Workers (USAAW).
Representatives of the University of West Indies are Dr. Michael Witter, senior lecturer and head of the Department of Economics and Dr. Dillon Alleyne, economist and lecturer also from the Department of Economics.
Other members of the committee are Finance and Planning Minister Dr. Omar Davies; Horace Dalley, Minister of Labour and Social Security; State Minister in the Ministry of Finance and Planning Fitz Jackson; Financial Secretary Shirley Tyndall; Solicitor-General Michael Hylton, and economist Dennis Morrison from the Office of the Prime Minister.
