{"id":39148,"date":"2013-09-10T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T12:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=39148"},"modified":"2013-09-10T08:56:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T12:56:43","slug":"fighting-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/09\/fighting-words","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/09\/fighting-words-39148.html\/but-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39149\" title=\"but\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/but.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/but.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/but-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/but-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>This can&#8217;t be good.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Belinda Wilson &#8212; President of the Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) &#8212; warned Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald to \u201ctry it\u201d after he threatened to cut pay for teachers participating in sit-outs.<\/p>\n<p>This latest disagreement is the newest addition to ongoing negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a number of teachers defied the orders of the Minister of Education by engaging in a sit-out at the request of the BUT. Mr. Fitzgerald declared that money would be deducted from the salaries of teachers who didn\u2019t show up to work by 8.45am.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Wilson, accompanied by her team of 10 union members, and the President of the National Congress of Trade Unions of the Bahamas (NCTUB), Jennifer Isaacs-Dotson, went to the Cable Beach office of Prime Minister Perry Christie but unsuccessful to secure a meeting with the PM after showing up unannounced.<\/p>\n<p>Believing they had secured a meeting with the Prime Minister, Ms. Wilson said she was upset to instead meet the Permanent Secretary and Investment Minister, Khaalis Rolle.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cIt was a waste of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Asked for a comment on Mr Fitzgerald\u2019s announcement he would cut pay, she was quoted to say: \u201cTry it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribune242.com\/news\/2013\/sep\/09\/teachers-hold-sit-out-defying-orders-minister-educ\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More at The Tribune<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belinda Wilson &#8212; President of the Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) &#8212; warned Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald to \u201ctry it\u201d after he threatened to cut pay for teachers participating in sit-outs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39148","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}