Apr 2012 Financial News

TCL strike continues

Apr 13, 2012

The 90-day strike continues at Trinidad Cement Ltd as a second conciliation meeting failed to break the deadlock between the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union and Trinidad Cement Ltd. After three and a half hours, OWTU president general Ancel Roget exited the Ministry of Labour and announced that the strike would continue as TCL brought an offer that was "inferior" to the previous one.

While Roget did not reveal the details, he did say that the "workers would hold the picket line and bring this home".

"It does not facilitate the kind of environment for coming together and arriving at a settlement," he said.

He said the union would not now accept what they refused the first time.

Roget said he just signed for nine percent at PowerGen and that company would enjoy a calm industrial relations climate.

Roget has signed for nine per cent at Petrotrin, National Petroleum and was granted a nine per cent at the Industrial Court for Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission negotiations. The Commission has yet to return with an agreement.

He said despite rumours to the contrary, the majority of workers remained on the picket line and have not returned to work. —See Page 10


Source:
By Renuka Singh
Trinidad Express
Friday April 13, 2012

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