~ Some personnel going with NPNA ~
PHILIPSBURG--According to St. Maarten Communications Union (SMCU) and Nieuwe Post Nederlandse Antillen (NPNA) General Managing Director Franklin Sluis, an apparent win-win proposal that was negotiated over the weekend with representatives of government and Postal Services St. Maarten (PSS) was changed by the latter to reflect a losing scenario for all parties.
SMCU President Ludson Evers and Sluis explained that the language in the proposal that would end the postal service saga did not reflect what had been agreed on last week Saturday. They explained that "every line" in the proposal had been discussed and finalised by all parties on Saturday. However, they continued, the proposal was returned on Sunday with changes that were not acceptable to SMCU and NPNA. Neither Evers nor Sluis elaborated on the content of the proposal.
With no agreed-on solution for the transition of postal services and employees from NPNA to PSS, NPNA stuck to its deadline of October 10 to terminate all non-concession services on Monday, October 10, while it awaits the next step in negotiations with PSS and the government of St. Maarten.
However, Sluis said the employees were still employed with NPNA, which would do utmost to safeguard their acquired rights, including paying their salaries until the transition was complete.
The Daily Herald has learned that a number of personnel will be moving on with NPNA in key management and supervisory positions when it opens its branch office here to execute certain services.
The latest developments prompted Post Office Operations Manager Clinton "Magic" Gumbs to declare, "We don't know who we are working for." He said personnel had not yet received proper information pertaining to the transition process and had never been invited to contribute to the setting-up phase of PSS when it was granted the concession to execute postal services in October 2011.
Gumbs said the little that personnel knew was from what was being reported in the media, and what they had been told by their union. Gumbs said the situation at present was not any different than the situation months ago, with postal workers still wondering what would happen to them.
Gumbs also outlined the difficulties he had had in obtaining information from PSS Director Denicio Richardson, saying Richardson had never had the time to meet with him or the personnel. He said it had been agreed that the PSS employees would be given the opportunity to hear on a monthly basis exactly what was taking place pertaining to transition period.
Gumbs also read a letter PSS had sent to NPNA that confirmed that the staff of NPNA employed and placed in St. Maarten would continue to function as such until the transition of the employees was concluded. "The expenses for all payroll staff shall be covered by the revenues generated and collected in St. Maarten. The responsibility for the reimbursement of salaries will commence on October 11, 2010. NPNA will invoice PSS on these costs and PSS will pay these costs," the October 2010 letter read.
Gumbs went on to question the level of information Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams had been receiving from PSS, as she had seemed to be in the dark when she finally met with him and his colleagues.
Evers added that a meeting of Richardson, the union and personnel had been scheduled on Monday afternoon, but stressed that the union would not engage in separate negotiations with PSS and with government.
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