Let’s talk: Brouard plea to firefighters
Monday 11th May 2009, 1:00PM BST.
AIRPORT firefighters have claimed that their goodwill is the only thing keeping flights running, after an agreement they signed with the PSRC and PSD ran out yesterday.
And Public Sector Remuneration Committee Deputy Al Brouard (pictured) said airport operations were hanging in the balance because no agreement had been reached.
He once again called for the Airport Fire Service, along with union Unite, to enter arbitration over the dispute.
‘I am sitting here with a time bomb. We need to get it sorted,’ he said.
All firefighters checked in for duty at 1pm, allowing all flights to take off and land, but it is still unsure whether services will continue from one fire crew shift to the next. The agreement that stood until yesterday meant firefighters would provide cover if one of their number fell ill, in return for a one-off bonus.
It meant firefighters received a total of around £24,000 to split.
But now they are doing it for nothing, according to an airport fire service spokesman who spoke yesterday afternoon.
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surely this fiasco of uncertainty has to be sorted out once and for all. It not only has a negative effect on tourism but is a threat to the islands economy as a whole.I remember many years ago the stevedores having a similar stranglehold on all passenger and cargo ships coming into the island. This dispute has to go before an independent arbitrator whose decision wil be legal and binding on both sides.
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I would agree with ‘naseby’¨
However what ever folk may think of these firefighters- one must admire their courage if a fire should happen.
It’s strange that those who mostly accuse these men of double play,l maybe they do the same under another name:
Trips to China trips to the USA here there and everywhere:
Yet always when a working man asks for better conditions, then they are morons according to those spendthrifts, Are they afraid that if the firefighters get more money, it will maybe less for them to gallivant on the excuse it’s for the Islands best:
Well so is the firefighters job.
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