Air Traffic Controllers Determining Next Move After Being Barred From Industrial Action | RJR News

The Jamaica Air Website traffic Controllers Affiliation (JATCA) is inspecting its authorized selections following Thursday’s get by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal (IDT) that it chorus from taking industrial action.

JATCA President Kurt Solomon states he disagrees with the treatment currently being adopted to deal with the wage dispute.

Thursday’s buy was the latest spherical in the condition which escalated following the affiliation served a wage assert on the Finance Ministry in May well 2021.

The get issued by the IDT acknowledges an industrial dispute amongst JATCA and the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA). 

Having said that, Mr. Solomon is asserting that the association’s claim was produced on the Finance Ministry and not the JCAA. This difference is producing a challenge. 

“We have indicated our disagreement with the terms of reference, and the procedure calls for us now to go again to the Ministry of Labour to take care of with the conditions of reference. But the Ministry of Labour, in certain, has mentioned that they can not help us if we are declaring we have an situation with the Ministry of Finance. They can only help us if we have an difficulty with our employer. Which is a sticking point,” he advised Radio Jamaica News.

JATCA has its initially tribunal sitting on May well 30. 

“We are exploring the marriage with the Ministry of Transportation and Mining, whom [sic] has promised that they will dialogue with the Ministry of Finance on behalf of the authority, the JCAA,” mentioned Mr. Solomon.

With just about a 12 months absent considering the fact that the affiliation served its wage assert on the Finance Ministry, and negotiations however to choose put, Mr. Solomon argued that this was “generating no end of challenges” at JATCA.