UNIONS: DO JOB EVALUATION ON GOV’T

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Union representatives  gathered at TIWU Headquarters on Tuesday where they kicked off Labour Day activities for 2024, ahead of the traditional Labour Day march on June 19th. President General of the Joint Trade Union Movement, Ancel Roget, issued a call to all workers to come down to Fyzabad on the 19th, as the Labour Movement prepares to do a performance appraisal on the government. Rynessa Cutting has more.

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00:00The general election takes place next year

00:03But with Labor Day coming up next week, the labor movement is calling on workers to do due diligence

00:09before casting their vote.

00:11People of Trinidad and Tobago are the employers.

00:14Let me say that again.

00:16The people of Trinidad and Tobago,

00:18we are the employers

00:20and they are coming to you

00:22in no time,

00:24very soon, to ask you

00:26to employ them again

00:29for another five years.

00:31But hold it.

00:33Before you quick to employ them,

00:35let us do an assessment

00:37on the performance

00:39and determine how did they perform.

00:41How did they perform

00:43on job evaluation?

00:45How did they perform?

00:47How did they perform in terms of health?

00:49How did they perform in terms of crime?

00:51How did they perform

00:53in terms of the economy?

00:55Roger says government's treatment of workers

00:57should be paramount during this evaluation

00:59and he is pre-empting the results

01:01of the exercise

01:03by announcing failure on the part of the government.

01:05Remember how they say

01:07everybody would get their back pay by Christmas last year?

01:09Remember that?

01:11Take your mind back to that.

01:13Today, as we speak

01:15on this launch of Labor Day 2024,

01:19a significant number of persons

01:21have not gotten their back pay.

01:23A significant number of persons

01:26have not gotten correct pay

01:28and so on.

01:30And we are counting

01:32and checking off all of the boxes

01:34where they would have failed

01:36and where they would have passed.

01:38And I can tell you

01:40there are very few boxes

01:42that are difficult to identify

01:44where they would have passed

01:46in anything over the last years.

01:48If anything at all,

01:50they have brought pain and suffering

01:52to the people of Trinidad and Tobago.

01:55The labor movement is calling on all workers

01:57to come down to Faizabad

01:59on June 19th

02:01and to send a strong message to the government.

02:03We have everybody

02:05coming together

02:07for just one day

02:09in this Trinidad and Tobago.

02:11This God-given Trinidad and Tobago.

02:13If we have everybody

02:15on one page coming together

02:17dealing with the issues

02:19I guarantee you

02:21those who oppress us

02:23will be out of this place.

02:25Renassa Cutting, TV6 News.

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