Ross Sheil, Staff Reporter
THE PRIVATE Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) is to make the details of its proposed tri-partite 'Partnership for Progress' agreement with Government and trade unions public shortly.
The publication of the document is to be made in response to doubts about its future after unions withdrew from signing the agreement between them, the private sector and Government last week.
"It is clear that we need to expose and explain why the partnership is important to Jamaica," PSOJ President Beverley Lopez told The Gleaner yesterday.
The partnership is closely modelled on the social consensus formed in the Republic of Ireland that turned it into the so-called 'Celtic Tiger' economy in the 1980s onwards.
According to Senator Dwight Nelson, president of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU), unions would only sign the agreement after a technical review of the strained Public Sector Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
But Mrs. Lopez stressed that the MoU is a separate agreement to the partnership.
"The MoU is a technical agreement over wages and inflation, whereas the partnership is an attempt to widen the democratic process," Mrs. Lopez said.
