Workers will today decide whether to “move things forward” with Premier Paula Cox even though she has refused to back down and cut the pay of Cabinet Ministers.Kevin Grant, president of the Bermuda Public Services Union, yesterday met Ms Cox to discuss possible proposals for “some kind of amicable agreement.”He will put these proposals to members at a meeting at 9.30am today and it will then be up to members whether they want to march on Cabinet.Today’s proposed march was organised to call for guarantees there will be no redundancies or wage cuts if the union accepts a 1.25 percent wage increase; and that Government considers a cut of ministerial salaries and does everything it can to introduce a price freeze on essential products.It came after the Bermuda Industrial Union rejected a reduced pay offer complaining Cabinet members $168,000-plus salaries were remaining untouched.Members said they’d only take overtime cuts if Ministers lead by example with a symbolic pay cut themselves.But Ms Cox turned down those requests in her first speech to the nation last Thursday night and reiterated this again yesterday. She said accepting a pay reduction would be an empty gesture.Mr Grant and BIU president Chris Furbert spent about an hour-and-a-half “talking things through” with Ms Cox yesterday morning.Mr Grant said: “I thought the meeting with the Premier went well, I’d say it was rather positive but brief.“We discussed the possibility of how we can move things forward and maybe reach a compromise.“We still have our concerns and we will make sure our membership is aware of those.“But we have to try to make sure that we have some sort of partnership going forward into the future.”Mr Grant said Ms Cox had once again rejected calls for Cabinet Ministers to take a pay cut, explaining: “There’s been no move on that, we knew she wouldn’t back down on that, we weren’t expecting her to.”But Mr Grant said: “We’re willing to do what we can to make sure this Island gets back on its feet.“We know the country is suffering so at the end of the day we want to try to work with Government.“I’m pretty sure the Premier understands our concerns and we also understand the Government’s position.”Mr Grant was keeping tight-lipped on the specifics discussed with the Premier saying he would “save that information for the members to hear first.”He said: “I am certain we will have the members meeting and will continue on as the members see fit.“What happens after that depends on how members take the information we have for them. We have to let the members decide what they want to do next.”Mr Grant said he could not say if the march would go ahead, but did suggest it may not be the best day “as the Premier is not going to be there.”In yesterday’s Royal Gazette we reported that both Opposition leaders signaled warnings of a summer of unrest.United Bermuda Party leader Kim Swan cautioned an industrial showdown could be catastrophic in Bermuda’s social climate. And Bermuda Democratic Alliance leader Craig Cannonier said all Bermudians, not just the Premier and her Ministers, were expected “to do more with less.”Mr Furbert did not respond to our requests for comment yesterday.