NDT WORKERS UNDER ATTACK FOR JOINING NWU
Vincent Cabrera writes: "Workers are being forced to realise that it is only the hinge that squeaks that is lubricated. They know that they shall suffer for as long as they remain silent and accept managerial intransigence."...more
They may control the guns, the courts, the media and the parliament but we control production and the streets. The battle is well and truly joined. Is we time now"...more
The National Workers Union stated in a media release issued on 7th December 2011: "The National Workers’ Union, like the rest of the labour movement, understood, despite the protestations to the contrary of the government, that the late unlamented SoE was not invoked to prevent an un-named disaster or to fight crime.
We knew that the emergency was invoked to derail and obstruct the momentum of the labour movement’s campaign against the wage suppression policy of the government"...more
However, the present global economic melt down, the massive unemployment, rising income inequalities, rising crime, increasing global poverty and war and destruction all testify to the fact that the free-market has failed"...more
In a flyer distributed at a joint trade union public meeting at Point Fortin on Saturday 19th November the National Workers Union (NWU) urged trade union leaders to convene an All Union Conference of Shop Stewards and Branch Officers (Cossabo) to deal with the threat of privatisation looming over the movement. The NWU also repeated its call to end the state of emergency...more
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NWU calls upon the labour movement and the citizens of T&T to strenuously resist this backward policy that is designed to prop up a collapsing capitalist system and bring hardship on workers and citizens by affecting workers’ job security and eroding the sovereignty of our country in the interest of parasitic capitalists at home and abroad...more
Comrade Dave Smith, General Secretary of the National Workers Union writes: "Occasionally, just occasionally, the Court comes up with what are called “landmark judgments” - judgments that establish a significant new legal principle or concept, or otherwise substantially changes the interpretation of existing law. The Communications Workers Union -v- Illuminate (Trinidad & Tobago) Limited (GSD-TD 118/2009) is one such case."...more
NWU: WE CAN'T BE GOUTI AND HOUND DOG TOO
NWU: REPRESSION BREEDS RESISTANCE; END EMERGENCY NOW
This turn of events certainly throws the spotlight on the strenuous denials of the government that the State of Emergency had nothing to do with the mobilisation of the joint trade union movement towards a general strike over the issue of the 5% cap for government employees and state enterprise workers...more
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