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Ot­to Car­ring­ton

As the Gov­ern­ment pre­pares to de­liv­er its mid-year Bud­get re­view on June 18, sev­er­al trade unions are urg­ing that the mea­sures be peo­ple-cen­tred and aimed at ad­dress­ing long-stand­ing is­sues af­fect­ing work­ers and vul­ner­a­ble com­mu­ni­ties.

Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas, who has open­ly sup­port­ed the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress and the Coali­tion of In­ter­est, told Guardian Me­dia that no mean­ing­ful progress on wage ne­go­ti­a­tions is ex­pect­ed be­fore the na­tion­al bud­get lat­er this year.