OWTU threatens ‘Summit shutdown'
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Trinidad & Tobago Guardian
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03 24 09
The Oilfield Workers Trade Union called on its troops to prepare for what it said will be a Summit shut down—the likes of which has not been seen in the region for a very long time. President general of the Oilfield Workers Trade Union Ancel Roget told a mass membership meeting at its Paramount Building in San Fernando yesterday afternoon that the April 17 to 19 Summit of the Americas was the catalyst to take the battle ahead.
“Our action will roll into the Summit and after the Summit,” Roget said. He said Prime Minister Patrick Manning had been country hoping to deal with issues other countries were facing to ensure the event came off without any upheaval. “But we subscribe to a view that charity begins at home and if communities are disaffected we will join and form one big action and if that action embarrass the prime minister, then so be it,” Roget said.
He said the crises facing T&T—like high food prices and inflation, crime and corruption, health and job insecurity—must not be swept under the carpet just to paint a rosy picture to visitors. “All of us must be on the outside, indicating the problems we have, for all of them to see.” “The T&TEC workers are being affected in a very serious way with their jobs being contracted out under the Street Lighting Implementation Unit, and if that means we have to be in the dark to shed light on this matter, then we certainly have no qualms about that.” Roget said.
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March 23rd, 2009
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