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26th May 2004
BEST PAID? NOT US SAY CARIB WORKERS
Best paid along the East/West corridor? Not us say locked-out Carib workers.
Responding to what the Union described as “distortions”, the National Union of Government and Federated Workers has issued information that was used during the abortive negotiations with Carib.
The information that the Union has now released shows that:
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On average Lever Brothers wages for weekly paid workers are 19.1% above their counterparts at Carib
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At Nestlé, weekly wages are on average 14.6% ahead of those at Carib
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For monthly paid workers, the gap with Lever Brothers is even larger at an average of 26.4%
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Nestlé pay an average of 15.2% more than Carib for their monthly paid workers
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An Accounts Clerk at Carib gets $5542.17 per month whereas a similar job at Lever Brothers gets $7577.00 – 36.7% more
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A Grade B Tradesman at Carib is paid $26.49 an hour compared with $33.75 at Lever Brothers (27.4% more) and $34.61 at Nestlé (30.7% more)
Carl. St. Rose, the President of the NUGFW Carib Section, said:
“To suggest that Carib workers are the best paid along the East/West corridor is a total distortion. We presented facts during the negotiations to show how far we are behind Lever Brothers and Nestlé – and it has been like this for years. ANSA McAL is making huge profits out of the work that we do and all we are looking for is a bigger share of the wealth that we create for the Company.”
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