Dionne Rose, Staff Reporter
JONES
THE MONITORING and Evaluation Committee of the second public sector Memoran-dum of Understanding (MoU2) will be meeting for the first time today since the accord was signed on May 30.
The meeting is being held at the Ministry of Finance and Planning's Heroes Circle offices in Kingston at 10:00 a.m.
Wayne Jones, president of the Jamaica Civil Service Assoc-iation, said today's meeting will be focused mostly on housekeeping matters.
"This being the first meeting, I don't expect that we are going to go into just more than operational issues having to do with how the committee is going to function from here on," Mr. Jones said.
He told The Gleaner that the union representatives would particularly be pushing for the setting up of a secretariat, which would organise and follow up decisions taken at the committee level.
Mr. Jones disclosed that staffing and budget for the secretariat were being looked into.
BITU HANGING TOUGH
Meanwhile, the Jamaica Labour Party's affiliated union, the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union (BITU), has still yet to sign the MoU2.
President of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU), Senator Dwight Nelson, who is also vice-president of the BITU, said the union would sign after a list was finalised of the government agencies that could afford to pay more than what was negotiated under the MoU2.
He said he is hoping that this would be done at this meeting.
"The sooner that is done, then we (the BITU) will sign," Mr. Nelson told The Gleaner yesterday.
Meanwhile, two new faces have been appointed to represent the JCTU on the committee. They are St. Patrice Ennis,
general secretary of the Union of Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Personnel, and Clifton Brown, president of the Jamaica Workers' Union.
Other members of the committee representing the confederation include: Dwight Nelson; Wayne Jones; Lambert Brown, president of the University and Allied Workers' Union and Helene Davis-White, general secretary of the Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers.
