The war of words between the two largest unions, the GWU and the UHM, continued yesterday with the GWU accusing the UHM of going back on its word and signing an agreement with the government for a section of workers who never accepted that agreement.

The GWU said that in August, 2001, the two of them were in discussions with the government for an allowances packet for nursing aides and health assistants. The talks failed because the government would not accept the union’s demands.

That day the GWU and the UHM met at the GWU premises and drew up an action strategy, the GWU said. But then the UHM, behind the GWU’s back, went back to the government and signed an agreement which neither the nursing aides nor the health assistants ever accepted.

The GWU said that all it expected from the UHM was for it to be more professional in its trade union activities.