The lack of transparency
For many months now workers in the public sector have been cooperating with the government to lower expenses, understanding that Aruba had to unite to overcome the crisis we are in. We were told that our financial cooperation in the form of a salary-cut of 12.6%, wasto help our fellow workers in the private sector who had lost their jobs (The FASE project). As usual workers in the public sector were willing to step up and help our country out of this crisis, just as was done in the past. But there were questions from the start that have not yet been answered and if so not truthfully. Questions like:Was the salary-cut of the public sector workers the only option? Who decided that the public sector had to give up 12.6% of their salary? Aruba or Holland? Why was there no dialogue with the unions on this choice of action? Why should the public sector give up 12.6% “ untill further notice” and the Ministers and Members of Parliament are only giving in 25% till the end of 2021? What will happen with the pension plan of the public sector workers as a consequence of this salary-cut? What happens with the financial contribution of the workers in the public sector when the FASE project for which they contributed is stopped? When workers in the public sector started asking these questions, the government said that these questions were not relevant. That these questions showed that these workers were selfish and that they did not care for the workers in the private sector or the financial crisis Aruba is in. The truth is that the government does not want to answer the many questions the public workers have. But one question was finally truthfully admitted, it was this government our own Prime Minister who suggested the salary cut in the public sector. They clearly have been fooling the public sector for a long time. Now the government is trying to divide the community in the hope to be able to carry on with their own unfair agenda. They repeated continuously “necessity knows no law” (“nood breektwet”) meaning that there was no other way out. But was that true?
WE the workers, are kind, WE are passive, BUT we are far from ignorant or weak
Come out this Wednesday and Thursday and show solidarity. STOP THE LIES. STOP THE ABUSE. RESPECT ALL WORKERS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR AND THEIR UNION LEADERS!
We are Aruba and we must stand for what is right……or fall because of lies!
