PARAMARIBO – President Jennifer Simons recently had her first meeting with the collective of labor federations namely Ravaksur Plus, the Central of State Employees’ Organizations (CLO)...
and the unions that represent the nation’s educators. All parties are content with the way the talks went last Thursday. Ravaksur Plus gave the head of state a list of all the things that they want to discuss. President Simons who answered questions and made comments pointed out that within the next two weeks she would inform the unions about how future meetings would take place. “The unions were used to a certain structure. The head of state will inform them if the same structure for talks will be maintained or if changes will be made,” said the chairman of the Council of Labor Federations Suriname (Ravaksur), Armand Zunder, who added that no agreements were made at the first meeting with the new government.