Air Traffic Controllers Determining Next Move After Being Barred From Industrial Action | RJR News
The Jamaica Air Website traffic Controllers Affiliation (JATCA) is analyzing its legal choices pursuing Thursday’s buy by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) that it refrain from having industrial action.
JATCA President Kurt Solomon says he disagrees with the course of action currently being adopted to offer with the wage dispute.
Thursday’s buy was the most current round in the condition which escalated immediately after the association served a wage claim on the Finance Ministry in May perhaps 2021.
The order issued by the IDT acknowledges an industrial dispute among JATCA and the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA).
Even so, Mr. Solomon is asserting that the association’s claim was designed on the Finance Ministry and not the JCAA. This difference is leading to a problem.
“We have indicated our disagreement with the terms of reference, and the system calls for us now to go back again to the Ministry of Labour to treat with the phrases of reference. But the Ministry of Labour, in specific, has said that they simply cannot aid us if we are saying we have an problem with the Ministry of Finance. They can only aid us if we have an problem with our employer. That is a sticking stage,” he informed Radio Jamaica News.
JATCA has its to start with tribunal sitting down on May perhaps 30.
“We’re checking out the romantic relationship with the Ministry of Transport and Mining, whom [sic] has promised that they will dialogue with the Ministry of Finance on behalf of the authority, the JCAA,” reported Mr. Solomon.
At the very same time, he claimed JATCA will have to broaden its method to dealing with the wage troubles. This broadening, he pointed out, will have to look at “other authorized channels that might be available… specifically in light-weight of what is happening with community sector payment evaluate and us not getting a component of that critique”.
With pretty much a year absent considering the fact that the association served its wage declare on the Finance Ministry, and negotiations however to consider place, Mr. Solomon argued that this was “producing no end of difficulties” at JATCA.