PUBLIC service workers have planned a major withdrawal of services for this morning in protest of the government's unwillingness to immediately give them a $1,200 lump sum payment.

BPSU assistant secretary general Lelotha Coleby confirmed yesterday that at an emergency meeting last night, the workers agreed to meet at the old City Market building off Market Street at 9 o'clock this morning from where they will march downtown to the Cabinet Office.

"There will be a march and this will go on until the BPSU and its members get financial satisfaction and until they show our president the respect he deserves," she said.

Yesterday's meeting was packed with hundreds of workers at BPSU's general meeting hall on East Street South.

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