{"id":29298,"date":"2012-12-13T10:24:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T15:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=29298"},"modified":"2012-12-14T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T15:17:08","slug":"government-seeking-money-to-cover-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/12\/government-seeking-money-to-cover-agreement","title":{"rendered":"Government Seeking Money To Cover Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29302\" title=\"jerome-fitzgerald\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jerome-fitzgerald.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jerome-fitzgerald.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jerome-fitzgerald-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The government is trying to put together hundreds of thousands of dollars to\u00a0fulfill commitments of an industrial agreement for non-faculty employees at the College of the Bahamas, said Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Fitzgerald explained that he is moving to \u201cmake a Supplementary Appropriations Bill\u201d as funds to cover the improved contract were not allocated in the budget.<\/p>\n<p>About 350 non-faculty workers have been agitating for a new industrial agreement since their last contract expired in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>According to John Pinder, president of the Bahamas Public Service Union which represents the employees, negotiations with COB\u2019s College Council reached an impasse over financial considerations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is trying to pull together hundreds of thousands of dollars to fulfill commitments of an industrial agreement for non-faculty employees at the College of the Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[21,40],"class_list":["post-29298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-educational","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}